By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Shamrock man with an extensive criminal record in Creek County and a Cushing woman on probation for drug possession in Payne and Lincoln Counties were charged this week with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and having drug paraphernalia during their arrests in Perkins on April 17.
Ex-convict Mark Anthony Gregory Jr., 36, who got out of prison two years ago, was also charged with being a felon in possession of a rifle and obstructing an officer by giving a false name when he had an outstanding arrest warrant from Creek County. Gregory remains in the Payne County Jail on $30,000 bail, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Caylin Jennette Franklin, 31, who has also been known by the surname of McCormick, was released from the Payne County Jail on $5,000 bond, court records show.
The pair had been arrested following a traffic stop of their SUV at Highway 33 and Highway 177 north about 2 p.m. on April 17, Perkins Police Investigator Charles Danker wrote in an affidavit.
“I asked Caylin how she was related to the passenger and she said there was no relation. I told her that Mark has a felony warrant out of Creek County and if she lies for him, she could be in violation of harboring a fugitive. I asked what the passenger’s name was and she said it was Mark and he knows he is probably going away for a while,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
“Caylin also told me there was a gun in the vehicle in the backseat,” which Perkins Police Deputy Chief Steve Hensley then recovered from a case on the back floorboard, the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
After Gregory was arrested on the outstanding Creek County warrant, Franklin was arrested on a city of Cushing warrant, the affidavit alleged.
During an inventory of the SUV, Perkins police found a glass pipe commonly used for smoking methamphetamine in the driver’s door, a dollar bill containing a powder substance by the gear shift, 32 baggies in a coat in the back of the vehicle, a bottle of Gabapentin prescribed to another man, another woman’s bank card, another woman’s club card, another man’s checkbook, and a $100 bill that didn’t appear to be real, the affidavit alleged.
In Franklin’s purse, the investigator found a fake lighter containing four baggies with methamphetamine and a heart-shaped mirror with a white powder substance on the glass, the affidavit alleged.
When Gregory was asked if the substance in the dollar bill was fentanyl, “he said no, it was crushed-up Lortab,” which he claimed was his, the affidavit alleged. Gregory “wanted to claim the substance in Caylin’s purse too,” the affidavit alleged.
“I asked if he was selling drugs and he said he had to provide for four kids and with his record, it is hard to get a job. He said he was going to pawn or sell the rifle to get money to bond out of jail. He admitted he was Mark and he lied because he knew he had the warrant and didn’t want to go to jail,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
The substances in the pipe, some baggies and on the mirror field-tested positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
The debit card found in the vehicle had been stolen in December of 2018 and used at the Cushing Walmart to charge $407, the affidavit alleged.
The card owner said “her daughter saw the video and identified Mark Gregory as the person who used the card,” the affidavit alleged.
Gregory was arrested on a Creek County warrant issued on April 3 on a three-count charge accusing him of falsely representing himself to be another person when questioned on Nov. 3, 2018, about stolen merchandise, stealing a security camera system and other items from the Bristow Walmart on July 25, 2018, and stealing a drone, spider wire security device and other items from the Bristow Walmart on July 30, 2018, court records show.
At the time the Creek County charge was filed, Gregory was already free on $5,000 bond on charges of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, driving under suspension and obstructing an officer by walking away when ordered to stop, all in Cushing on Oct. 25, 2018, court records show.
According to records from Creek County and the state Department of Corrections, Gregory had previously been convicted of:
* methamphetamine possession and driving under the influence of a drug in 2015 for which he was given two concurrent five-year prison terms in 2016 of which he served 14 months;
* false personation in Drumright in 2013 for which he was given one year in prison of which he served four months;
* methamphetamine possession in 2008 for which he was originally given probation with Drug Court that was revoked in 2013 to a two-year prison term of which he served four months;
* drug possession in 2005 for which he was given a five-year suspended sentence in 2006;
* second-degree burglary in 2008 for which he was given a four-year suspended sentence in 2008;
* second-degree burglary in Drumright in 2006 for which he was given a five-year suspended sentence in 2008.
If convicted of his current four-count charge in Payne County stemming from his April 17 arrest in Perkins, Gregory could be sentenced to life in prison plus 12 years and fined $111,500, court records show.
If convicted of her current two-count charge in Payne County stemming from her April 17 arrest in Perkins, Franklin could be sentenced to life in prison plus one year and fined $101,000, court records show.
According to court records, Franklin was already on probation under five-year deferred sentences for possessing methamphetamine in 2015 in Payne County and having the same drug in 2017 in Lincoln County.
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