By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 26-year-old rural Yale man, whose mobile home in the Quail Crossing RV Park east of Highway 18 on 44th Street was searched on a federal warrant by FBI agents and a Payne County sheriff’s investigator, has been charged with trafficking methamphetamine.
Marcus Jack Spradlin remains free on $100,000 bail pending a June 20 appearance in Payne County District Court on the felony drug charge carrying a maximum penalty of a 20-year prison term and a $200,000 fine on conviction.
Spradlin, who previously lived in Cushing, was arrested at 8:20 am on May 11, about 40 minutes after his double-wide mobile home was searched on a warrant stemming “from a global, dark web investigation by the FBI,” Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Brandon Myers alleged in an affidavit.
“Marcus is suspected of using the dark web and a marketplace on the dark web to commit identity theft and bank fraud,” the affidavit alleged.
During the search, FBI agents and the sheriff’s investigator found 20.05 grams of a crystal substance that field-tested as methamphetamine, the affidavit alleged.
The drug was found in a can on the bottom shelf of a coffee table; a bag containing 56 unused small baggies was found in the bottom drawer of a table between two living room recliners, the affidavit alleged. A digital scale was found in the top drawer of an end table next to one of the recliners, the affidavit alleged.
“In the master bathroom at the south end of the residence, we located several dinner plates. One of the plates had a crystal substance on it with an approximate weight of one gram. That plate and another plate each had a dollar bill that was rolled up,” the sheriff’s investigator alleged in his affidavit.
“It is common for drug users to use rolled-up dollar bills to snort drugs,” according to the affidavit.
