
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A man, who allegedly told a Stillwater police officer he was only a driver, has been charged with possessing 28 grams of fentanyl, which is five times the aggravated trafficking weight in Oklahoma, court records show.
If convicted of aggravated trafficking of fentanyl, Dejion Andreal Cooper, 26, of Oklahoma City, could be imprisoned for two years to life and fined $25,000 to $100,000, according to the charge filed last week.
Cooper was jailed for five days until he was released on $25,000 bail with a judge-imposed condition of wearing an ankle monitor pending his arraignment with an attorney on March 14 in Payne County District Court.
Cooper had been arrested at 5:57 pm on Feb. 9 following a traffic stop in the 500 block of E. 6th “for failure to signal lane change 100 feet prior to,” Stillwater Police Officer Brett Moore wrote in an affidavit.
“As Dejion exited the vehicle, I observed a large bulge in his front right pocket,” of “what I believed to be two bags of pills tied up into plastic sacks,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“This is common packaging for drug dealers who have weighed and separated their product for sales. I began to remove the bags and immediately noticed it contained numerous blue pills that I suspected were fentanyl pressed pills,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“I placed Dejion in handcuffs without incident and advised him of his Miranda rights. Dejion stated he was only a driver and was supposed to be meeting somebody to deliver the product,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
The pills contained “the imprint M 30 which were not uniform, and the blue coloring was not consistent with factory-pressed pills. These pills are commonly known as ‘Blues’ or ‘Foxy’s,"” and field-tested as fentanyl, the affidavit alleged.
“One of the bundles also contained a white compressed powder,” that field-tested positive for fentanyl, the affidavit alleged.
“The total weight of fentanyl seized was approximately 28 grams. This is five times the aggravated trafficking weight in the state of Oklahoma,” the affidavit alleged.