
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 37-year-old Perkins man has been jailed on charges of maintaining a house where drugs are kept, possessing methamphetamine and heroin, and having two glass methamphetamine smoking pipes with residue, as well as used syringes.
Tyler Dean Boyce has been scheduled to appear in court on March 6 when he can seek a preliminary hearing on the three-count charge, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years’ incarceration plus a $12,000 fine on conviction.
Boyce was arrested at 7:05 am on Feb. 9 after a search warrant was served at his house at 6:10 am by nine Perkins police officers and a sheriff’s deputy, according to an affidavit by Perkins Police Officer Spencer Gedon.
“I approached the front door and knocked loudly and yelled ‘police, search warrant, open the door,"” three times before hearing officers at the back of the house giving commands to a woman to show her hands and get on the ground, Gedon alleged in his affidavit.
“At that time, Officer Anderson used the battering ram to gain entry through the front door,” Gedon wrote in his affidavit.
“We determined that the two individuals we had detained were the only occupants,” Gedon wrote in his affidavit. The woman was charged with misdemeanor counts of drug possession and paraphernalia before being released from jail by a judge to be taken to in-patient treatment, court records show.
“It appeared that they had tried to destroy evidence by flushing it down the toilet. I removed the multiple lumps and the other items from the bowl of the toilet,” including a brown lump that field-tested as heroin, Gedon alleged in his affidavit.
“I then looked in the trash can beside the toilet and located a green medicine bottle with a large brown lump in a plastic wrapping and three different kinds of pills. On the sink next to the bathroom were used syringes,” Gedon alleged in his affidavit.
In the master bedroom were two glass smoking devices, a small bag with a white crystal substance that was also on a plastic spoon and in a glass vial, three scales two of which had a brown residue, a spoon with black tar residue, burnt foils and used syringes, the affidavit alleged.
In the northwest bedroom were a glass smoking device, a metal tray with residue, burnt foils, black tar substance and used syringes, the affidavit alleged. Used syringes were also found in the living room, the affidavit alleged.