
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman with an extensive criminal history has been jailed on $50,000 bail pending a Feb. 15 court appearance on charges of trafficking methamphetamine, giving a false name to a police officer, possessing a loaded 9 mm gun, and having marijuana along with drug paraphernalia.
Amy May Lakawitz, 38, who was already on probation for car theft and a hit and run injury accident, could be given a life prison term plus 13 years if convicted of the five-count charge filed last week.
Lakawitz and a male companion were arrested at 3:37 am on Jan. 29 by Stillwater Police Officer Christopher Boren, who saw them walking across a parking lot of a church that had several vandalisms over the past year, an affidavit said.
“Both stated they did not have any ID with them. I radioed to dispatch to run both of those individuals by the information provided. Dispatch advised that neither individual returned to anyone with that name and date of birth combination,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
After Lakawitz was arrested for obstructing an officer, she was searched by a female OSU police officer on the male Stillwater police officer’s request, the affidavit said.
“During the search, the OSU officer felt something on the right side of her waistline,” which was a 9 mm gun loaded with four rounds in the magazine, the affidavit alleged.
“We transported the two individuals to the City of Stillwater jail where Amy May Lakawitz was identified by a senior officer that has had numerous interactions with her,” the officer wrote in his affidavit. Her young companion was only charged with misdemeanor counts of drug paraphernalia possession and obstructing an officer, court records show.
Lakawitz had 75 grams of suspected methamphetamine in a small pouch in a backpack that contained plastic baggies, a digital scale, a glass pipe, a small bag of suspected marijuana, a wallet containing her ID and $206 in cash, the affidavit alleged.
According to the state Department of Corrections, Lakawitz, who has also been known the surname of Ferraro, was released from prison in October of 2021 after about 10 months of incarceration to serve 3,394 days of probation for car theft and leaving the scene of an injury accident in Payne County in 2020.
Lakawitz had also been convicted in Payne County in 2013 of assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon and drug possession in 2011 for which she served about six years of two concurrent 20-year prison terms, along with three concurrent 15-year sentences for domestic abuse in 2012, second-degree burglary in 2013, and drug manufacture in 2009, as well as a concurrent 10-year prison term for drug possession in 2011. She had also served about eight months of a two-year prison term in 2006 for drug possession with intent to distribute in 2005 in Grady County, DOC records show.