(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman — who was arrested for being intoxicated at the Payne County Courthouse three months ago — was ordered Monday to stand trial on felony charges of shoplifting $1,266 worth of merchandise from the Cushing Walmart, giving a false name to Cushing police and attempting to obtain a controlled drug by fraud in Stillwater.
Danielle Marie Stidman, 26, who waived her right to a preliminary hearing on her felony charges Monday, remains jailed on $5,000 bond pending her trial court arraignment Friday before District Judge Phillip Corley.
Stidman allegedly gave a false name to Cushing police when she was arrested on a shoplifting complaint at the Walmart in Cushing at 9:15 p.m. on May 23, court records show.
At the time, she was free on $2,500 bond on a felony charge of attempting to obtain a controlled drug by fraud in Stillwater on Feb. 19 by allegedly altering a prescription for Percocet from 10 to 30 pills, court records show.
Stidman’s latest arrest came when Cushing Police Officer Jerrod Livergood was sent to the Cushing Walmart shortly before 8 p.m. on May 23 on a report that Asset Protection Associate Adam Tuttle had seen her “attempt to walk out of the store with multiple items without paying for them,” an affidavit alleged.
Questioned by the Cushing police officer, Stidman said, “I was shoplifting,” the affidavit alleged.
“Danielle said that she was taking the items for a friend that was going to give her half the value of the items she took in cash.
“Danielle said that she was going through hard times and she was trying to make some money,” the affidavit alleged.
After Tuttle placed Stidman under citizen’s arrest, she was transported to the Cushing Police Department jail, the affidavit said.
The items, which Stidman is alleged to have attempted to steal from Walmart, totaled $1,266 before taxes, the affidavit said.
At the scene of her arrest, she is alleged to have falsely personated herself to be another woman — causing the investigating officer to issue a citation against the other woman for shoplifting, court records show.
Three months before that alleged incident in Cushing, Stidman was arrested by Stillwater Police Officer Trevor Meridith, court records show.
The officer was sent on Feb. 19 to the Stillwater Medical Center to talk to a physician who suspected that Stidman had altered a prescription he gave her two days earlier for 10 tablets of Percocet, an affidavit alleged.
“Dr. Prytkov checked Stidman’s prescription history online and found her prescription for 10 tablets of Percocet was filled with 30 tablets,” Meridith’s affidavit alleged.
“Walgreen’s Pharmacy was contacted and pulled the hard copy of the prescription which appeared to have been altered,” the affidavit alleged.
“I contacted Stidman at the ER and asked how her prescription was changed from 10 to 30 tablets. Stidman initially claimed no knowledge of the alteration,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I explained altering a prescription is a felony charge and it would be in her best interest to be cooperative and honest with me.
“Stidman paused, dropped her shoulders, took a deep breath and stated, ‘I changed it.’ Stidman said she changed the count from 10 to 30 as soon as she left the hospital on Friday and planned to sell the extra tablets,” the affidavit alleged.
The following month, while she was free on bail on that felony charge, Stidman was arrested on a misdemeanor count of public intoxication at the Payne County Courthouse on March 12, court records show.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Tina Osborn was working security at the front entrance to the courthouse at 1 p.m. that day, according to her affidavit.
“The defendant, later identified as Danielle Stidman, was at the security checkpoint. I immediately noticed that she was extremely unsteady on her feet,” the deputy wrote in her affidavit.
“As she passed through the metal detector, she ran into the side, nearly knocking it over. Deputy Woods asked her if she had been drinking and she said, ‘no.’
“I observed a strong odor about her person that I associate with the consumption of an alcoholic beverage. I asked her if she had been drinking, and she said, ‘No, it’s my bipolar medication.’
“The defendant had slurred speech and her eyes were bloodshot. While talking to her, she nearly fell over,” according to the deputy, who arrested Stidman for public intoxication at the courthouse.
If convicted of all of her charges, Stidman could be given a 25-year prison term plus 30 days and fines totaling $20,100, court records show.
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