(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict from Drumright has been given a 15-year prison term for possessing methamphetamine when he was arrested by Cushing Police Officer Matthew Piatt following a chase.
John Thomas Davis, 31, who got out of prison 15 months ago, pleaded guilty Friday to having meth and drug paraphernalia while driving without a license and trying to elude the Cushing police officer.
Piatt wrote in an affidavit that at 3:40 a.m. on March 13, he saw a gold-colored sedan fail to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Cherry and Harrison Streets.
When the officer activated his siren, the driver accelerated the car to about 50 mph in a 20 mph zone on Harrison Street, the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
“The driver, later to be identified as John Davis, led me on a pursuit across 9th Street that reached speeds of approximately 70 mph in a posted 30 mph zone,” Piatt wrote in his affidavit.
“Davis also completely failed to stop at two other stop signs during the pursuit. Davis’s vehicle became incapacitated at the intersection of 9th and Linwood.
“I placed Davis under arrest without incident. Once the handcuffs were placed on Davis, he made the spontaneous statement, ‘Hey, Piatt, check this out — if you look in my right watch pocket right here, there’s a bag of dope,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
The bag had a small amount of a white powdery substance that later tested as methamphetamine, the affidavit said. During a vehicle inventory, the officer found a glass-smoking pipe with meth residue, the affidavit said.
A syringe was found in the glove box that appeared to have been used, the affidavit said.
The officer later learned that Davis did not have a valid driver’s license and had an outstanding arrest warrant, the affidavit said.
As part of a plea bargain approved by District Judge Phillip Corley Friday, Davis was given concurrent one-year jail terms for attempting to elude and possessing drug paraphernalia. He was given a concurrent 30-day jail term for driving without a license.
A year ago, Davis was charged with attempting to manufacture methamphetamine at a house on Luella Street in Cushing, along with possessing meth and drug paraphernalia, all on May 20, 2011 — four months after he got out of prison.
In a plea bargain last year, the drug manufacturing charge was dropped when he admitted possessing methamphetamine, syringes, spoons with meth residue and digital scales, all on May 20, 2011.
The judge then stayed his sentencing until he completed the Payne County Drug Court program — which he never started, court records show. The judge then issued a bench warrant for his arrest in that case.
In court Friday, Davis was given a concurrent 10-year prison term for possessing methamphetamine and a concurrent one-year jail term for having drug paraphernalia in that 2011 case.
According to court records, Davis was convicted in 2004 in Coweta County, Georgia, of manufacture and sale of methamphetamine, for which he received a five-year sentence.
Five years later, Davis was convicted in 2009 in the Drumright division of Creek County, Oklahoma, of assault and battery on a police officer, for which he was given a two-year prison term to be followed by seven years of probation.
However, he only served seven months for that offense, Oklahoma Department of Corrections records show.
Davis was also convicted in 2009 of bail jumping in the Drumright division of Creek County, Oklahoma, for which he was given a consecutive one-year prison term, of which he served about four and one-half months before he was released in January 2011, DOC records show.
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