Pryor Police arrested an Adair man Saturday evening on charges of possession of a controlled drug (methamphetamine) with intent to distribute and possession of paraphernalia.

Jay Earl Martin, Jr., 60, who is currently on parole from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, was taken into custody.

Officer Kevin Lanham was on duty when police received a call from the Mayes County Sheriff’s Office that they’d had reports of a careless driver in the county, heading into town.

“The vehicle description was familiar to me,” Lanham said. He’d arrested Martin a few days earlier on charges of actual physical control after he found Martin passed out behind the wheel on First Street in front of Jenks Distributing.

“I’d received a call of a vehicle in the ditch,” he said. “When I checked it out, the car was back on the road but stopped in his lane. The driver was passed out.”

He described “actual physical control”, a misdemeanor, as similar to a DUI, but the driver wasn’t observed driving the vehicle.

When the vehicle description was given, Lanham thought it sounded familiar.

“We began to assist the sheriff’s office in locating the vehicle in question,” Lanham said. “I found it at Pete’s Drive-In.”

Lanham approached the driver and realized it was the same man he’d arrested previously.

He said that Martin was acting suspicious.

“I turned around for some reason and when I turned back, there were empty little white baggies on the ground behind him,” Lanham said. “I know they weren’t there before, so I questioned him about it.”

Martin became visibly nervous so the Drug Task Force Dog was brought to the scene.

“The dog alerted to the presence of narcotics in the vehicle,” Lanham said.

A search of the car yielded two grams of methamphetamine, packaged for sale.

Martin was booked along with a passenger, Rebecca Jean Fox, 24, Pryor. Fox was arrested on charges of public drunk and carrying a concealed weapon. She was carrying a switchblade.

During arraignment, Fox pled guilty to public intoxication. She was given a sentence of time served plus court costs. She was ordered released.

Martin is being held on $50,000 bond for his current charges. Court records show that in 1990, Martin pled guilty and was convicted on multiple counts of robbery with a firearm, possession with intent to distribute, improper use of another’s drivers license, all AFCF (after former conviction of a felony.) He was also convicted of possession of a firearm after a felony conviction.

He received 45 years each for two of the robberies, 45 years for the firearm possession charge, 20 years for the driver’s license charge and 20 years for the possession charge, all to run concurrent, or at the same time.

He received 10 years for another robbery conviction to run consecutive to a sentence of 10 years for a failure to return rental property conviction. Consecutive means to run one after the other. The two consecutive sentences were to be served concurrent with the other sentences.

He was paroled in January, according to Lanham, who also said Martin’s parole officer had been notified of his two recent arrests.

Martin is scheduled to appear in court again on Dec. 3, at 9:30 a.m.