A Chandler man has been bound over to stand trial on three felonies in July in connection with a Harrah man already in jail on a murder charge who was facing five additional felony counts.
Gavin Othel Gray 31, of Chandler, was charged with committing the crime of distribution of a controlled dangerous substances and allegedly committing an overt act by distributing CDS to other persons.
Gray was also charged on July 18 in Lincoln County District Court with two other felonies in addition to the conspiracy count.
They include distribution of CDS including possession with intent to distribute and possession of contraband by an inmate.
Gray was bound over following his preliminary hearing before Special Judge Emily Mueller. She scheduled his arraignment for 9:30 on Jan. 10.
The Harrah man is Cole Beringer, 20, charged with first degree murder Feb. 22, 2021 the five additional counts were filed against him in July of this year.
The first count accuses Gray on June 23 of knowingly distributing methamphetamine, a CDS, to an inmate in the Lincoln County Jail.
The other felony charges him on the same date of possessing in the Lincoln County Detention Center, which is a county jail, an item of contraband, specifically dangerous controlled substances, which he was an inmate at that facility.
Lincoln County Sheriff Capt. Chuck Brewer, in a probable cause affidavit, stated he received information on June 23 from Jail Administrator Haley Freeman concerning contraband in the Lincoln County Jail.
Freeman reportedly advised Brewer that on June 22 she requested the Lincoln County Sheriff Office’s Special Operations Team to conduct a search of the jail based on information she had received that drugs and a cell phone were within the west pod of the jail.
Brewer explained the Special Operations Team is a multi-agency group of law enforcement members who train together The team reportedly recovered a cell phone, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a manufactured edged weapon from the cell occupied by Guy.
Freeman provided Brewer with the evidence. Brewer reported that he and Sgt. Aaron Bennett began investigating and interviewing inmates.