Cristy Jensen, 50, owner of Christy's Bail Bonds, 710 E. Walnut St., spent Thursday night in the Jackson County Jail charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, a misdemeanor because the drug -- Lortab -- is a Schedule 3 drug.
Jensen was hit with a second misdemeanor charge of transporting a loaded firearm after police found a loaded Raven Arms .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol in the console of her car during a search. She did not have a concealed carry permit for the pistol, as verified by police in a criminal history check through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Jensen was booked into the jail at 4:52 p.m. Thursday and was released Friday afternoon after an initial appearance before Special Judge Suzanne Mollison and posting a $1,500 bond.
According to an affidavit filed in District Court, on Jan. 31 an informant told Agent Bob Carder of the District III Drug Task Force that in May 2004 she had utilized Jensen's bond services on a $1,000 bond and that she had paid the $160 bond premium with $80 in cash and another $80 worth of Lortabs.
The informant said that on Jan. 30 she was at Jensen's residence in Altus and that Jensen asked her to obtain some Lortabs, giving her $50 for the purchase.
On Feb. 3, task force agents met with the informant and drove her to the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2500 N. Main St. and had her call Jensen using a cell phone with a recording device. The informant told Jensen that she did not have 7.5-milligram Lortabs but that she had 17 10-milligram Lortabs and that it would cost an additional $18. Jensen, coincidentally, was at Wal-Mart at the time, and the two agreed to meet near the end of Row 6 in the parking lot.
The informant was outfitted with a transmitter and recording device, along with 17 tablets in a plastic baggy, and agents watched as she entered a tan four-door Toyota with a personalized license plate reading "Cris."
When the informant and Jensen exited the vehicle and began walking toward the front entrance of the store, the agents made contact with Jensen and retrieved the devices and a $20 bill from the informant, which she said was paid to her for the tablets. Asked where the tablets were, Jensen said they were in her pocket.
District Attorney John Wampler said the state Insurance Commission has the power to discipline licensed bail bondsmen but that he did not know what the commission might decide to do in this case.
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