(Stillwater, Okla.) – A repeat drug offender, who was released from prison two years ago, remains in the Payne County Jail pending a Jan. 7 court appearance on multiple charges stemming from his various arrests in Stillwater last year.
If convicted of all counts, Stillwater resident Ishmael Farrakan Muhammad, 30, who has also been known as Mike Rodgers, could be sentenced to three life prison terms plus 33 and one-half years, court records show.
At the time of his latest arrest on Oct. 24, 2018, on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a loaded sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun, Muhammad was free on $45,000 total bail on Payne County charges of:
* possessing marijuana with intent to distribute and obstructing a Stillwater detention officer on Sept. 21, 2018;
* assault and battery on a Stillwater police officer, threatening a violent act on a Stillwater police detective, possessing the drug Flexerill without a prescription, having a methamphetamine smoking pipe, and resisting arrest by two Stillwater police officers on July 13, 2018;
* possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a .22 caliber handgun, having that gun with a serial or identification number that was removed, defaced or altered, possessing digital weight scales with substance residue and multiple baggies, and obstructing a Stillwater police officer by providing a false name on May 5, 2018.
According to state Department of Corrections records, Muhammad had previously been convicted of:
* drug possession in Payne County in 2007, for which he was given a five-year prison term in 2009 of which he served about three years and two months;
* drug possession in Payne County in 2008, for which he was given a concurrent five-year prison term in 2009 of which he served about three years and three months;
* drug possession in Payne County in 2009, for which he was given a concurrent 10-year prison term in 2010 of which he served almost six years;
* carrying contraband into jail in Craig County in 2011, for which he was given a consecutive one-year prison term of which he served about four months prior to his release in January 2017.
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