A Stroud woman faces two felony counts following her arrest recently by a Lincoln County deputy sheriff.
Formal charges were filed July 26 in Lincoln County District Court against Kayla Dawn Butler, 31. The charges include unlawful use of license or identification card and falsely personating another.
Associate District Judge Sheila Kirk set a $2,000 bond for Butler who made her initial appearance on July 26. The judge scheduled a pre-preliminary hearing for 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 12.
Butler is accused of on July 17 of displaying as her own an Oklahoma driver’s license not issued to her for the purpose of misleading Deputy Christopher Hyde who was performing his duty to learn her identity.
The other felony charges her with falsely personating another woman for the purpose of avoiding arrest on outstanding warrants on the same date.
Deputy Hyde, in an affidavit supporting probable cause to arrest Butler, states he was assisting Stroud Police Officer Levi Bruder in conducting a traffic stop on SH 99 just north of 9th Street when he noticed Butler was sitting in the back passenger seat of that vehicle.
The vehicle was driven by Marcus J. Catron Jr., who the officers knew had an outstanding warrant through Lincoln County. Officer Bruder placed him under arrest, putting on handcuffs and placing him in the back seat of the patrol vehicle.
Hyde reported they knew Butler from previous law enforcement contacts. Hyde asked her to step out of the vehicle and asked for her identification.
Hyde stated he was aware she had warrants for her arrest through the Stroud Police Department.
She reportedly told the deputy her identification was in a backpack in the bed of the pickup truck. Butler gave the officer a driver’s license showing another woman’s name.
After checking with dispatch, Hyde asked Butler her full name and she gave that woman’s name again.
When Hyde asked her if her real name was Kayla D. Butler, she told him yes and that the other woman was her cousin.
Hyde then advised Butler she was under arrest for false personation and providing a false ID card as well as outstanding Stroud city warrants.
He transported her to the Lincoln County jail in Chandler.
Hyde, in checking further, had the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office make contact with the woman whose name Butler allegedly had been using. That woman reportedly lives near Tecumseh and she told them she didn’t know Butler and had not given permission to use her ID.
She told them she didn’t know it was missing. She advised them she had moved and gotten a new one.