Ashley Russell
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 40-year-old Stillwater woman has been given three concurrent 15-year prison terms for trafficking fentanyl and failing to protect four children from drugs on Nov. 30, 2022, as well as trafficking methamphetamine on June 24, 2022, along with two concurrent 10-year prison terms for possessing a gun during the commission of both drug crimes.
Ashley Renee Russell had pleaded guilty to all of her felony charges on Nov. 3 without an agreement with the prosecution regarding her sentences that were imposed by Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley on Dec. 8, court records show.
Stillwater Police Detective Josh Carson wrote in an affidavit, “Ashley is a known associate of the ‘Playboy Gangsta Crip’ organization and is a known drug trafficker in and around the Stillwater area.”
On Nov. 30, 2022, the Stillwater Police Department’s Special Projects Unit served a search warrant at “the primary home of Ashley Russell, whom I know from a previous drug investigation,” the detective wrote in an affidavit.
“Four juvenile children were encountered in the residence and brought to the living room. The children ranged in age from 4 months old to 17 years old. Upon entry into the house, dog feces were found on the floor, old food was sitting all over the kitchen, and the residence was in deplorable condition,” the affidavit said.
Six children had been living at the house including four belonging to a homeless woman, who had been there for about two weeks, the affidavit said. “DHS requested emergency custody of the children,” all of whom were removed from the home, the affidavit said.
After Russell was located in a bathroom, “I found a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol under the pillow on the bed in the north bedroom Ashley stated was hers. A large amount of ammunition was also found. I found numerous blue M30 pills in a box on the north window ledge. I am very familiar with these pills and know they are pressed fentanyl pills often referred to as ‘Foxys.’
“Fentanyl is extremely dangerous and these pills were well within reach of any child that might come into that bedroom. Digital scales with methamphetamine residue on them were located; packaging material and several packages of unidentified powders were also located. It was obvious Ashley was operating a drug distribution enterprise from her residence,” the detective wrote in his affidavit.
