(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Ripley man on probation for concealing stolen property in Noble County has been jailed on $360,000 total bail on Payne County charges including possessing methamphetamine, marijuana and weapons, along with engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity, all after a former felony conviction.
Mario Dwight Smith Sr., 44, was arraigned Monday from the Payne County Jail on 14 felony counts and ordered to appear in court on July 6, court records show.
If convicted of all of his Payne County charges, Smith could be given nine life prison terms plus 60 years, court records show.
Smith was arrested in Ripley at his home in the 300 block of E. Main Street on June 16 on two outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court on earlier Payne County charges of methamphetamine trafficking, drunk driving, handgun possession, and concealing that stolen gun, all in rural Stillwater in January, as well as drunk driving in Stillwater last year.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Gregg Russell wrote in an affidavit that on the afternoon of June 16, Deputy Dan Nack contacted Smith at the back door of Smith’s residence and told him he was under arrest on the outstanding warrants.
“Smith had no pants on so he asked Nack if he could retrieve his pants from inside the residence,” the affidavit alleged.
When Nack and Smith went into the house, “Nack observed in plain view on a dresser in the bedroom two yellow pills, a glass smoking pipe with residue and a zip-lock baggy containing marijuana,” the affidavit alleged.
Nack then contacted a Payne County judge by phone and was granted a search warrant for the residence, the affidavit said.
Russell found a loaded Remington 12-gauge pump shotgun between the mattress and box springs in a bedroom where Nack found inside a dresser “two magazines for a .40-caliber Glock, one loaded with 12 rounds of ammo and one empty,” the affidavit alleged.
The two yellow pills were identified as 2 m.g. Alprazolam, the affidavit alleged. A portion of the residue from the glass smoking pipe tested as methamphetamine and the green leafy substance tested as marijuana, the affidavit alleged.
“On the 3rd day of June 2015, Deputy Nack and I executed a search warrant,” on Smith’s residence in Ripley where they found methamphetamine, firearms and stolen property, the affidavit alleged.
In a nine-count charge filed Monday, all after a former felony conviction, Smith was accused of:
* engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity from Jan. 4 through June 16,
* assault and battery with a loaded Glock model 19, 9 mm handgun by striking a Stillwater man in the head on May 29,
* possessing that handgun on June 3,
* possessing methamphetamine on June 3,
* possessing a P-32 semi-automatic handgun and a Glock, style 33, 9 mm handgun on June 3,
* concealing a P-32 semi-automatic handgun, .32-caliber, on June 3 that had been stolen from an Oklahoma City resident,
* possessing marijuana with intent to distribute on June 16,
* possessing a Remington 12-gauge pump shotgun on June 16,
* maintaining a house where marijuana was kept on June 16.
At the time of his latest arrest, Smith was free on $50,000 bail with an order to appear in court on June 16 for a preliminary hearing on charges, all after a former felony conviction, of:
* trafficking methamphetamine on Jan. 4,
* drunk driving a pickup truck on 68th Street east of Jardot on Jan. 4,
* possession of a Glock model 27 .40-caliber handgun on Jan. 4,
* concealing that stolen gun on Jan. 4.
Also at the time of his latest arrest, Smith was free on $5,000 bail with an order to appear in court on June 16 on a felony charge of:
* drunk driving a Cadillac in Stillwater on March 13, 2014.
According to court records, Smith had previously been convicted of felony drunk driving in 2005 in Oklahoma County, for which he was placed on five years’ probation in 2006.
Smith had also previously been convicted of knowingly concealing stolen property after a former felony conviction in 2010 in Noble County, for which he was placed on 10 years’ probation in 2011, court records show.
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