Third drug arrest this year gets Lawton woman $350,000 bond

What began as a police officer stumbling onto a suspicious vehicle parked at a vacant home’s driveway with its lights on turned into an attempt to elude and, eventually a methamphetamine trafficking charge for a Lawton woman.

The arrest is her third this year for felony drug charges.

Nicole Ann Radford, 37, made her initial appearance Monday in Comanche County District Court where she received felony charges of possession of meth with the intent to distribute and endangering others while eluding police and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia, records indicate.

Lawton Police Officer Matthew Peck stated he was on patrol around 1:15 a.m. Saturday when he saw a red vehicle parked with its lights on in the driveway of a vacant home at 1417 SW Oklahoma and he became suspicious of illegal activity. He saw Radford looking out the driver’s side window with a “shocked or scared look” on her face when she saw him, the probable cause affidavit states.

The car backed out and accelerated quickly and Peck dropped in behind her with his lights flashing, the officer stated. Radford continued driving, throwing a butane torch lighter out the window as she was driving 40 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone, the affidavit states. Peck got her to pull over in the 1600 block of Southwest Wisconsin.

When Radford was taken into custody, her 6-year-old daughter was found lying in the backseat without a seatbelt on, according to the affidavit.

A search of Radford turned up $427 in cash in her jacket pocket, and several items in her bra, to include a baggie of methamphetamine and a glass pipe with drug residue, a green vial containing meth and a silver coin purse containing six individual baggies containing meth as well as a folded piece of foil, also containing meth, the affidavit states. In the path Radford had driven, a broken glass pipe and several chards of meth were found near the butane lighter, Peck stated. In all, 16 grams of meth were recovered.

Out on $200,000 bond for charges of aggravated fentanyl trafficking and meth trafficking from February and $75,000 bond for March charges of possession of fentanyl, marijuana, and buprenorphine, Radford received another $350.000 bond for the latest charges. She returns to court at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 9 for her preliminary hearing on the latest case.