(Stillwater, Okla.) – A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a ex-convict who failed to appear in trial court Friday on a charge of throwing contraband, described as two packages containing 15 cell phones, 14 phone chargers and 11.6 ounces of tobacco, over a fence at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing last summer.
Cody Robert Mathews, 25, of Glenpool, was ordered last month to stand trial in Payne County on the felony charge of bringing contraband into a penal institution after a former felony conviction, court records show. If convicted, Mathews, who was free on $7,500 bail, could be given a two-year prison term and a $2,500 fine, court records show.
Mathews was released from prison in November 2012 after serving about half of two concurrent four-year sentences for drug possession in Rogers County in 2010, state Department of Corrections records show.
Eight months later, Mathews was placed on five years’ probation for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Tulsa County in 2013, DOC records show.
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