WATONGA – Three people were arrested this week when drugs were discovered in their vehicle during a late-night traffic stop, Blaine County Sheriff Travis Daugherty said.
Daugherty described the bust to the Blaine County commissioners on Monday morning.
“We had a deputy make a traffic stop the other night,” Daugherty said, “and bust a load of narcotics heading to the prison in Helena. We made three arrests on aggravated trafficking.”
The deputy found suspected ecstasy and cell phones bound for prisoners, he said. The stop occurred near Hitchcock around 3 a.m.
It’s unclear how the women planned to deliver the narcotics to inmates at Helena’s James Crabtree Correctional Center. Commissioner Raymond Scheffler said traffickers will sometimes throw the deliveries over a prison fence to be picked up by inmates in a predetermined area.
As of Tuesday, there were two women listed as having been jailed on suspicion of trafficking on the Blaine County jail roster: Tori Crooks of Sallisaw and Heather Coleman of Oklahoma City. They were booked in the early-morning hours of April 29, the log shows.
No formal charges had been filed against the women as of Tuesday.