By BOB GIBBINS
Press Staff Writer
TAHLEQUAH —
Parole was denied for a man convicted in Cherokee County on multiple drug charges.
Jason L. Baldridge’s early release was denied in February by the Pardon and Parole Board. Baldridge started serving a sentence in March 2008 and his tentative release date is November 2012, the Department of Corrections web site states.
He was convicted of manufacturing a controlled drug, possession of controlled drug and cultivation of marijuana in a case filed following an investigation by Cherokee Nation marshals.
Court records indicate Baldridge was initially placed in a drug treatment program. That was to be followed by a successful completion of the drug court program.
Baldridge was discharged from the treatment program and sent to prison in 2007. His sentence was reviewed the next year and it was reduced from 10 years in prison, with an additional five years suspended, to six years in prison, with an additional nine years suspended.
Also on the docket from the area was Susan Raelea Scroggins. She is serving a sentence for uttering a forged instrument, burglary second degree and grand larceny. Her projected release date is December 2012. She was also denied parole by the board.
