Traffic stop leads to drug arrest

 

March 11, 2018



A Waynoka woman is facing three misdemeanor charges following a traffic stop. Rebecca Leigh Hutchison-Miller, 42, is charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and unlawful possession of urine to defeat drug screening.

Hutchison was stopped by Woods County Deputy Adam Honeyman on Saturday, Feb. 3, at 2:50 p.m. According to court documents, Honeyman saw Hutchison’s vehicle, a 2003 Mitsubishi, on US281 near Santa Fe in Waynoka. He observed that neither of the occupants was wearing a seatbelt and the license plate on the back of the vehicle was about to fall off.

When he spoke to Hutchison, she said doesn’t like to wear seatbelts. While talking to her, Honeyman noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. Asking Hutchison to accompany him, Honeyman returned to his vehicle to ask for a narcotics detection dog to come to the location.


While they sat in his patrol vehicle, Honeyman could detect an odor of marijuana about her person. He asked Hutchison about the odor, and she said it could be her son’s. She admitted her 16-year-old son uses marijuana and is doing some of the same things she has done. She said she didn’t know how to get him to stop.

Waynoka Police Officer Misty Smiley arrived along with Ranger Nathan Rackley. Smiley ran her certified narcotics detection dog “Ike” on the vehicle. Smiley said Ike made a positive alert on the vehicle.

When Honeyman interviewed Hutchison and her son, Hutchison said she wasn’t sure if there was anything illegal in the vehicle. She said her nose was stuffed up, and her son could have marijuana in the vehicle and she would not know.


With Hutchison’s consent, Honeyman interviewed her son. He said there could be a bag of marijuana in the vehicle somewhere that he “lost.” He said there was a vape device containing marijuana in his mother’s purse that he put there when they were stopped.

When Honeyman and Rackley searched the vehicle, they found the vape smoking device containing marijuana in Hutchison’s purse. They found in the vehicle a sinus medication bottle containing synthetic urine. The officers also found some clear clean plastic baggies and cigars with the innards removed. The cigars could be used by filling them with marijuana and smoking. When Rackley closed the rear hatch of the vehicle, the license plate fell off.


Honeyman asked Hutchison about the pill bottle with urine. According to the affidavit, she said, “I am a bigger girl and it is harder to get clean quickly to pass a drug test for work.” She told Honeyman the urine was to allow her to pass a drug test for a new job she was going to get.

According to the affidavit, Hutchison made involuntary admissions throughout the contact admitting knowledge of illegal substances in the vehicle, however attempted to use her son as a buffer for the presence of the illegal items.

Both Hutchison and her son were placed under arrest. In a criminal records search, Honeyman learned Hutchison has several drug-related charges and was given a ten-year deferred sentence for possession of controlled dangerous substances.

 

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