(Stillwater, Okla.) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Stillwater teenager who was charged last week with stealing the pain medication Percocet containing oxycodone, from a relative in Cushing.
If convicted, Dustin Koal Clark, 19, could be given a 10-year prison term and $10,000 fine, according to court documents.
Cushing Police Officer Christopher Haywood wrote in an affidavit filed last week that he was contacted by Clark’s relative on New Year’s Eve regarding the medication.
The woman said that she did not notice she was missing some of the Percodet until after 3 p.m. on Dec. 27 when she dropped Clark off in Stillwater, the affidavit said.
Asked how much medication was missing, “She said she believed between 20 and 25 tablets,” the affidavit said.
She said she attempted to use her debit card the same day, but it declined — and when she contacted her bank, she discovered someone had obtained $300, the affidavit said.
She said “she asked Dustin if he took them and said Dustin admitted to taking the Percocet and cash, via text, and she was trying to talk him into returning them without pressing charges against him,” the affidavit alleged.
A week later, she took her cell phone to the Cushing Police Department to show the officer the text messages between Clark and herself, the affidavit said.
According to the text messages, at about 10:06 p.m. on Dec. 27, 2013, she spent much of the conversation “pleading with Dustin to return the Percocet and $300 he stole,” the affidavit alleged.
She said “Dustin was family and she wants to avoid pressing charges for the theft,” according to the affidavit.
At about 11:44 p.m. on Dec. 28, 2012, she “asks for an explanation from Dustin as to why he stole the Percocet and cash,” the affidavit alleged.
“Dustin responds at 12:02 a.m. saying he has no good explanation or a good reason,” but tells her “It’s almost like it’s a rush,” the affidavit alleged.
When the officer talked to Clark at 12:40 a.m. on Jan. 7 on the phone, Clark admitted taking the Percocet and $300 from his relative — adding that he returned the $300 on Jan. 6, the affidavit alleged.
However, the relative said that he had not returned the money and “she was uncomfortable with the idea of being near him after all that had transpired,” the affidavit said.
The same night, Clark “said he would be unable to meet at the Cushing Police Department due to a lack of transportation from Stillwater,” the affidavit said.
Asked by the officer how many pills he had taken, “Dustin said, ‘I took about three.’ I asked Dustin what he had done with the pills. Dustin replied, ‘I took (ingested) two, and I don’t really remember what happened to the other two,” the affidavit alleged.
Questioned by the officer whether he had returned the $300 he took from his relative, Clark said he was going to, but his relatives had not agreed to meet with him, the affidavit alleged.
“Dustin asked what was going to come of it all. I explained to Dustin that a report would be completed and forwarded to the Payne County District Attorney,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
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