By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Tulsa woman with a criminal record in four counties was charged Monday with trafficking heroin and possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute in Stillwater on Saturday.
Belinda Lee Becktol, 52, was jailed on $100,000 bail pending her arraignment this afternoon before a Payne County judge on the two-count felony charge, court records show.
If convicted of heroin trafficking, Becktol could be imprisoned for 10 years to life and fined $100,000. If convicted of her methamphetamine charge, Becktol could be given a seven-year prison term and a $100,000 fine.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Becktol was previously convicted of:
* larceny in 1986 in Canadian County, for which at age 19 she was placed on five years of probation in 1987;
* three separate charges of passing forged checks between 1994 and 1995 in Canadian County, for which she served 13 months’ incarceration of three concurrent prison terms of three years, followed by four years of probation;
* first-degree robbery in 1995 in Canadian County, for which she served three years’ incarceration of a 10-year prison term concurrent to her forged check sentences;
* cocaine possession in 2001 in Oklahoma County, for which she served six years’ incarceration of a nine-year prison term;
* drug possession in 2001 in Oklahoma County, for which she served the same sentence as above concurrently;
* methamphetamine possession in 2002 in Oklahoma County, for which she served the same sentence as above concurrently;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2002 in Cleveland County, for which she served about two years’ incarceration of a four-year prison term;
* alprazolam possession and being a felon in possession of a firearm in 2009 in Oklahoma County, for which she served one and one-half years’ incarceration of two concurrent four-year prison terms;
* possession of a stolen vehicle as well as the drugs heroin and methamphetamine in 2014 in Tulsa County, for which she was placed in a program called Women in Recovery for one and one-half years that she completed in 2016 after which she was placed on four years’ probation on each count in 2016, on which she remains.
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