Jason Walker
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 48-year-old Stillwater man arrested by Iowa Tribal Police Officer Bailey Tucker has been jailed on $50,000 bail on a charge of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute in Perkins.
Jason Edward Walker has been ordered to appear in Payne County District Court on Sept. 9 on the felony charge carrying a possible prison term of seven years plus a $100,000 fine on conviction, records show.
The Iowa tribal officer was traveling east on W. Freeman Ave. just west of the Cimarron Casino in Perkins at 11:21 am on Aug. 1 when he saw a red Ford Edge exit the casino’s north parking lot and travel east at 28 mph in a 25-mph zone with a defective third brake light, according to his affidavit filed last week.
Walker was a passenger in the car that was impounded for having no insurance, the affidavit alleged.
“While conducting an inventory of the vehicle, I located a plastic bag containing a crystal-like substance, a small set of scales and a glass smoking pipe containing a crystal-like substance inside a backpack in the floorboard of the front passenger seat,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
After Walker admitted that it was his backpack, the driver was told he was free to go, the affidavit alleged.
The substance in the bag tested at the Iowa Tribe Police Department was positive for methamphetamine, which weighed about nine grams, the affidavit alleged.
Residue on the set of scales and the glass smoking pipe also tested positive as methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
