Ranae Fay Andrews
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 41-year-old Yale woman jailed on $75,000 bail has been ordered to appear in court on Jan. 11 for a preliminary hearing on a charge of trafficking marijuana, 71.24 pounds of which was found in a processing plant in her garage, court documents allege.
If convicted of drug trafficking by possessing marijuana in excess of 25 pounds, Ranae Fay Andrews could be given a prison term ranging from 10 years to life and a fine of $25,000 to $100,000, court records show.
Andrews was arrested at 9:47 pm on Nov. 10 at 349 N. B Street after Yale police were asked to assist the Pawnee County Sheriff’s Department with a search warrant, an affidavit alleged.
“This home is a known drug house and is on our watch list with people coming and going all hours of day and night,” Yale Police Officer Stephen Lombard alleged in an affidavit.
“The search warrant was a no-knock warrant and could be served any time. The door was breached with a sledgehammer by a Pawnee County deputy,” the affidavit alleged.
Two juveniles in the home were released to grandparents, the affidavit said. A man in the home was given a Yale citation for possessing drug paraphernalia and released, the affidavit alleged.
“The garage had a marijuana processing plant set up with screens for processing the marijuana, baskets set up with plastic bags in them for placing the processed marijuana into, once processed,” the affidavit alleged.
Also found were “Clear plastic bags in several sizes, several large trash bags with marijuana, four sets of scales, plastic and rubber gloves new, a basket with used rubber and plastic gloves, ash trays set around with marijuana residue and pieces of marijuana cigarettes (joints), a 55-gallon drum with several large bags of marijuana packaged in amounts of around 1 lb., sealable plastic wrap with a vacuum seal machine, two hand-held two-way radios, one on a charge and turned onto channel 15 and the other was charged but turned off on channel 14,” the affidavit alleged.
“The unofficial weight of all marijuana in garage was 71.24 lbs.,” the affidavit alleged. Andrews’ home is about 471.48 feet from the Yale High School, the affidavit said.
