(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman — who was on probation for two methamphetamine charges when she was charged with two more methamphetamine cases including possessing the drug in the Payne County Jail — has been given four concurrent 10-year prison terms as part of a plea bargain.
Nesha Ashley Comstock, 27, who had been terminated from the Payne County Drug Court program in December, was ordered to prison last week by District Judge Phillip Corley, who told her that if she completed drug treatment while she was incarcerated he would suspend the balance of her sentence.
When Comstock had been advised four months ago that she needed residential drug treatment, she had responded, “I really don’t think that I need treatment, and if I have to go I want to be able to take my daughter with me,” according to a report by state Department of Corrections Community Sentencing Local Administrator Dee Miller.
“Ms. Comstock was informed that her daughter could not attend treatment with her because her mother has guardianship,” Miller added in her report to the court last March.
Comstock, who had been terminated from Payne County Drug Court after a 2013 drug arrest, was then assigned for outpatient substance abuse counseling at Gateway — where she was given a urine test that did not register a temperature or positive for any drug, the report said.
“Ms. Comstock has tested positive on Feb. 27, 2014, and March 10, 2014, for methamphetamine, amphetamine and marijuana. Ms. Comstock has been previously warned about bringing altered urine for testing,” the report said.
Ten days after she was jailed without bail on her earlier drug charges, Comstock was found in possession of methamphetamine inside the Payne County Detention Center on May 19, court records show.
Four months earlier, she had been freed on $25,000 bond on a charge of possessing methamphetamine and one and a half morphine pills on Dec. 12, 2013, along with drug paraphernalia, court records show.
In that case, Payne County sheriff’s deputies and a team of Drug Court staff were conducting a home visit at Comstock’s trailer in Stillwater when they heard several people running to the south end of the trailer, an affidavit said.
Methamphetamine and morphine were found in the kitchen inside a Mickey Mouse tin, Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Nack wrote in an affidavit.
In Comstock’s bedroom under the children’s bed, a plate containing methamphetamine was located, the affidavit said. In the nightstand was a safe containing a 9 mm handgun and syringe, the affidavit said. In a closet, an Easter bucket had clear plastic baggies and a pill bottle with 21 pills of nine types, the affidavit said.
Eight months earlier, Comstock had been arrested by the same deputy for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute on April 30, 2013, court records show.
“Under the pillow on the bed was $650 in a wallet with an I.D. for Nesha Comstock,” the affidavit said.
In a bedroom closet, inside a cloth bag were digital scales and a bag of 8.8 grams of methamphetamine — which also had a bag of peach-colored crystalline substance which field-tested positive, the affidavit said.
“I have learned in my training and experience that the peach coloration is added to appeal to children and younger people as rock candy,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
Seven months before that, Comstock been charged with methamphetamine possession and drug paraphernalia after she was arrested at a Dollar Store in Cimarron Plaza in Stillwater on Sept. 14, 2012, for shoplifting, an affidavit said.
“She was talking extremely fast and she acted as if she could not control her movements. The employees confronted her about the items they witnessed her put in the purse and she screamed she had set the items down all over the store,” Stillwater Police Officer Kerry Bell wrote in an affidavit.
“I opened her purse and discovered several items the store employees identified they had witnessed her take. Nesha would not stay seated on the floor.
“She acted like the floor was hot from the way she was wiggling. I asked her what drugs she had taken. She denied being a drug user.
“I noticed her movements were jerky. She was even blinking her eyelids extremely fast. I informed her she appeared to be high on meth,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
After she was arrested for shoplifting, “The jailer informed me he had discovered methamphetamine in the brown wallet in Nesha’s purse,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
In court Friday, Comstock was sentenced in accordance with a plea bargain that included her complying with the Methamphetamine Registry on her release from prison, undergoing random drug testing, and paying $2,500 in fines and assessments.
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