Man joins girlfriend behind bars in fentanyl conspiracy case

A 30-year-old man is in jail on $20,000 bond for allegations he tried to coerce his girlfriend to smuggle fentanyl inside the Lawton City Jail while he was behind bars.

Dakota Ray Brinsfield made his initial appearance Thursday in Comanche County District Court where he received a felony count of conspiracy to commit bringing drugs into jail, records indicate. The crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Brinsfield’s girlfriend, Tia Nicole German, 25, received the same charge and made her initial court appearance Feb. 23.

Monitored phone calls between Brinsfield and German were turned over from the jail section to Lawton Police Detectives in the Special Operations Unit.

The recorded calls contained conversations between the couple as they discussed bringing drugs into the jail by German taping or sewing them into the arm pits or collars of some shirts and bringing them to Brinsfield on Feb. 20, the probable cause affidavit states. He said others would buy the pills for $100 apiece and the money made would go to his books and her.

When German showed up at the jail on Feb. 20, police collected the shirts she brought and investigators found where something had been taped or glued in the arm pit but nothing was found, the affidavit states. While being booked into jail, a single fentanyl pill was found on German, police said.

German admitted to trying to bring the drug in but of panicking and pulling the pill from the shirt, according to the affidavit.

Free on $20,000 bond, German returns to court at 3 p.m. May 7 for her preliminary hearing conference, records indicate. Brinsfield’s preliminary hearing conference will be at that same time.