A man charged with drug trafficking heads to a preliminary hearing on Aug. 13, after appearing at a pre-preliminary hearing on May 28.
Ralph Edward Young, 64,ofOklahomaCity,was charged on May 12 with five counts and made his initial appearance on May 21, according to court documents.
Lincoln County District Attorney Adam Panter charged Young with one felony count of possession of a schedule I or II controlled drug with intent to distribute, one felony count of trafficking amphetamine or methamphetamine 20 grams or more, one misdemeanor count of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, one misdemeanor count of possession of controlled dangerous substance (marijuana) and one misdemeanor count of falsely impersonating another to create liability, according to court documents.
Supplemental information provided by Panter showed that Young has several prior convictions from 1999 to 2017 related to manufacturing drugs, possessing a firearm after a felony conviction and possession of controlled dangerous substances, among other charges.
The probable cause affidavit reported that on May 10, Dep. Christopher Vickrey with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to Highway 102 and 1060 Rd. close to 12:30 a.m. to a vehicle stopped in the lane. He requested that Kickapoo Tribal Police also be sent to the scene as he was traveling from Meeker.
Before Vickrey arrived, Ofc. James Hill from Kickapoo located the vehicle. He had the plates run and they returned to a Ford F-150, though the car on the road was a Pontiac Grand Prix. Hill reported that the driver initially gave the name Ronald Young, which was his dead brother. The driver was actually Ralph Young, and he had a warrant out of Carter County, the report said.
Young was already in handcuffs when Dep. Vickrey arrived. When asked what was wrong with the car, Young stated that it had overheated. Vickrey called for a tow truck as the car was blocking the eastbound lane and a safety hazard. He then asked Young if there were any narcotics or other illegal items in the car as they were going to inventory it, and Young replied no.
According to the affidavit, Hill and Vickrey found copper wire, a glass jar with a crystalline substance, multiple used needles, two glass smoking pipes, a black wallet with more crystalline substances, a black container with baggies of more of the crystalline substance and another glass pipe, unused needles, a green, leafy substance identified as marijuana, and other drug paraphernalia.
The two did a narcotics field test on the glass jar with the white crystalline substance and it tested positive for methamphetamine, the report said.
Dep. Houston Byford with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrived and transported Young to the Lincoln County Jail, while Arrow Wrecker took possession of the vehicle. All of the evidence was placed in the lockbox in Dep. Vickrey’s vehicle and transported to the Sheriff’s Office.