Meth lab busted near Elementary School

NASHUA, N.H. – Eleven people have been indicted on charges related to making and purchasing illegal methamphetamine after a meth lab was busted near an elementary school, according to the U.S. district attorney in New Hampshire.

Police say the meth was manufactured in homes, vehicles and hotel rooms in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and the latest bust was just 1,000 feet from an elementary school.

That home tested positive for meth in the kitchen and bathroom, and ingredients and recipes were found inside, authorities said. An 11-month-old child was living in the home at the time.

Police say the suspects bought many of the materials at the store, including pseudoephedrine, which requires the customer to show identification. After the same names kept popping up, police made the arrests.

Alan Phillips, 47, of Chelmsford, Mass.; Thomas McElligot, 41 of Nashua, N.H.; Philip Beaulieu, 52, of Lowell, Mass.; Michael Chartier, 42, of Fitchburg, Mass.; Frank Hahnl, 44, of Nashua, N.H.; Nathan Rivard, 28, of Candia, N.H.; Jocelyn Rehnburg, 30, of Manchester, N.H.; Bobby Miron, 50, of Nashua, N.H.; Lindsay Miron, 24, of Nashua, N.H.; Avey Wick, 37, of Nashua, N.H.; and Katherine Rich, 46 of Nashua, N.H., were charged with conspiracy to manufacture quantities of methamphetamine at various locations.

McGelliot was also charged with unlawful possession with intent to manufacture methamphetamine, maintaining a drug–involved premise at his residence, possession with intent to manufacture methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school, and possession with intent to manufacture methamphetamine on premises on which a child was present.

Beaulieu, Hahnl, Miron, Rehnburg, Rivard and Wick were also charged with knowingly purchasing more than nine grams of ephedrine base, pseudophedrine base, or phenylpropanolaime base within a 30 day period.

The defendants could face up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $1 million if convicted.

Police say the child found inside of home has been evaluated at the hospital and is doing fine. Two of the suspects who were indicted, Lindsay Miron and Bobby Miron, are the child’s mother and grandmother.

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Man held in girlfriend’s slaying

Woman cut 50 times; meth abuse cited in DeKalb case

FORT PAYNE – The Monday night stabbing death of a 24-year-old Marshall County woman “was the tragic end of a long line of meth and domestic violence,” DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris said Tuesday.

Harris said John Mark Collum Jr., 27, of Albertville is being held in the county jail here without bond in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Kristi Renee Wolf of Douglas, who was stabbed or cut about 50 times “all over her body.” He said during a noon news conference Tuesday that his investigators are waiting to hear from District Attorney Mike O’Dell before formally charging Collum in the killing.

Harris said Collum “went into a rage” after accusing his girlfriend of being unfaithful to him. He said Collum told investigators that both he and his girlfriend were methamphetamine addicts.

According to Harris, Collum and his girlfriend were traveling Monday from Snead to Douglas when he stopped and struck her in the head with a metal object and placed her in the trunk of his vehicle. About 11 p.m., after arriving at his mother’s home on DeKalb County Road 964 in the Kilpatrick community, Collum grabbed a steak knife from the kitchen and stabbed and cut his girlfriend after she told his mother what her son had done to her.

Collum’s mother and a niece ran from the home during the stabbing and called 911. An investigator told reporters at Tuesday’s news conference that his mother witnessed the stabbing.

Harris said deputy Cody Oliver, who had just graduated from police academy last week, apprehended Collum after he saw him running from the home. He said Collum told Oliver that he believed he had killed his girlfriend.

She was found dead in the home.

Harris said there is a history of domestic violence between Collum and Wolf in the two years they had been dating, including an incident when Wolf had broken her boyfriend’s leg while in a rage.

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Methamphetamine lab found in stairwell of State Services Building in Tulsa

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa police and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers say a meth lab has been found in a stairwell of the State Services Building in downtown Tulsa.

OHP Lt. George Brown calls it the most brazen location he’s ever seen a meth lab.

The lab was found about 10 a.m. Monday by groundskeepers and investigators believe it was built after the building closed Friday. It was found at the bottom of the stairwell in an area hidden from easy view.

Authorities say a police HAZMAT team was able to remove the lab without disrupting business at any of the state offices.

The building houses agencies ranging from the Department of Human Services to child support offices.

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Children, animals removed from alleged filthy drug house in Hesperia

Two children and six animals were removed this week from a Hesperia home where authorities found methamphetamine and bullets in the kitchen sink, as well as razor blades and feces on the floor.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Westlawn Street house on Sunday for a domestic disturbance and found Katrina Marie Alvarado, 32, with scratches on her neck.

While looking around the home, deputies said there were exposed electrical wiring, broken glass, feces and razor blades on the ground. Several bags of meth were found and officials say they believe Alvarado and 33-year-old Fernando Saiz were selling drugs.

Two children, ages 1 and 8, were turned over to county family services employees. Animal Control was called out to remove four dogs, a ferret and a parrot.

Alvarado was booked at the Victor Valley Jail on suspicion of child endangerment. Saiz was booked on suspicion of domestic violence, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance in a jail.

Deputies said Saiz received the last charge because a bag of meth fell out of his shorts pocket while he was being booked.

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Man arrested for barbecuing drugs

Onslow County deputies say they arrested 28-year-old Ashley Edwin Hinson for allegedly cooking up methamphetamine.

Deputies said they found a portable meth lab at a home on Frederick Lane in Midway Park. The meth lab was in a BBQ grill outside the front door.

Hinson was not at home when authorities discovered the mobile lab.

Hinson was arrested on Sunday and charged with possession of methamphetamine precursor and sulfuric acid, possession of methamphetamine precursor and lithium batteries, attempt to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Hinson is at the Onslow County Jail under a $150,000 secure bond.

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Three some turns into double stabbing

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NIWOT, Colo. — The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man suspected of being involved in a meth-fueled sexual encounter that ended with two men stabbed in the back.

Ruffin Griffin, 28, of Niwot, was arrested Thursday afternoon on suspicion of misdemeanor assault, child abuse and domestic violence. He is suspected of hitting his fiancee, Serena Brooks, after Brooks stabbed Griffin and his friend, Clint Cadigan, in their backs following a sexual threesome, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Brooks’ and Griffin’s infant child was asleep in an adjacent room throughout the incident.

Griffin is being held at the Boulder County Jail, with a bond hearing set for Monday.

 Cadigan, 28, has been issued a summons for child abuse, as well, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

A hospital spokesman said Cadigan was released Thursday, but he could not be reached for comment.

Brooks was arrested Tuesday night and is being held at the Boulder County Jail on $50,000 bond. A hearing is scheduled next week for the filing of first-degree assault and child abuse charges in her case.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, Griffin and Cadigan left a Niwot bar together at about 11:30 p.m. on Monday and went to the house where Griffin lives with Brooks, 30, and their 6-month-old son.

A sheriff’s report said they then started using methamphetamine and engaged in three-way sex.

During the encounter, the men began to argue and “fell to the floor” during a physical fight.

While the men were tumbling, Brooks grabbed a nearby steak knife which, according to the report, “they had been using to scrape the methamphetamine as they smoked it.” When the men wouldn’t stop fighting, Brooks stabbed them both in the back “in an attempt to break up the fight,” the report said.

Brooks and Griffin began yelling at each other, and Griffin allegedly hit the woman in the face before leaving with his friend. The men drove together to Boulder Community Hospital, where they were treated for serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.

When reached Wednesday afternoon — prior to his arrest — Griffin said he was feeling better and would likely heal in about three weeks. He declined to discuss specifics of what happened during the altercation but did say, “I want to apologize to the citizens of Boulder and Niwot for my irresponsible actions over the weekend.”

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2 charged with meth dealing

Two Red Bluff residents were arrested Thursday on suspicion of selling methamphetamine.

Members of the Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement Task Force had been investigating a Givens Road apartment for about a month when, with assistance from the Red Bluff Police Department, they pulled over Bryon Ames, 48, based on information that Ames had been selling methamphetamine. Ames was detained pending a search warrant, according to a release from TIDE.

Accompanied by RBPD officers, TIDE agents entered the apartment complex, where they found Christine Gregory, 42, and two others in the apartment. A consent search of her vehicle revealed 2.6 grams of methamphetamine, scales, packaging material and drug paraphernalia, and Gregory admitted to selling methamphetamine, according to the release. TIDE agents later searched Ames’ vehicle, where they found 45.1 grams of methamphetamine and 34.1 grams of marijuana, both of which were packaged for sale, and $8,200 in cash. Gregory was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine for sale. Ames was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine for sale, marijuana for sale and transporting methamphetamine

Sumter County woman arrested in meth bust

 

SUMTER – A woman faces several charges after agents from the Sumter County Drug Unit and Sumter Police Department say they found a disassembled methamphetamine lab inside her apartment.

According to a news release from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Jeannie Dangerfield, 29, of 230 Highway 261, Apt. 9 in Wedgefield was charged with Manufacturing Methamphetamine and two counts of Exposing a child to Methamphetamine.

Deputies say agents executed a search warrant for stolen property on Dangerfield’s apartment Friday. Once inside, they say they found a disassembled meth lab, chemicals, and an undisclosed quantity of methamphetamine.

Deputies say they suspect two children living in the apartment were exposed to methamphetamine.

Agents took Dangerfield to the Sumter/Lee Regional Detention Center where she was awaiting a bond hearing Saturday afternoon.

Deputies say the incident remains under investigation and more arrests are expected.

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Eugene man goes to prison for role in prostitution ring

A 50-year-old Eugene man was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in prison for providing methamphetamine to and promoting the prostitution of a 14-year-old girl. Mathias Rey DeVasier received a sentence of 44 months after pleading guilty to felony counts of promoting prostitution, third-degree sodomy, unlawful possession of methamphetamine, and two counts of unlawfully delivering the drug to a minor. Lane County Circuit Judge Eveleen Henry also ordered DeVasier to register as a sex offender and to serve three years of post-prison supervision upon his release.

 DeVasier could have faced as much as 20 years in prison and a $375,000 fine on a single count of unlawfully delivering the drug to a minor.

 He is one of six men indicted this year in Lane County Circuit Court on charges related to underage prostitution. Another of them, 18-year-old DeSean Lavar Milton of Springfield, also faces a federal charge of child sex trafficking for his alleged work with others to use four girls younger than 18 to engage in commercial sex acts from which he profited.

 Deputy Lane County District Attorney JoAnn Miller said DeVasier met the 14-year-old runaway after responding to an advertisement featuring her on the “women seeking men” and “erotic services” sections of the classified ad Web site craigs­list. DeVasier took the girl to his house, where he paid her for a sex act and provided what the runaway told police was her first methamphetamine.

 He then invited the girl to move into the house, where another female prostitute — an adult — already was living. DeVasier drove the runaway to prostitution appointments, Miller said, and took part of her earnings for “gas money.”

 After the girl’s mother called police to ask for help in locating her daughter, police tracked the missing girl to DeVasier’s house. When they searched the home, they found pornography and traces of methamphetamine on dinner plates, the prosecutor said.

 DeVasier’s attorney, David Moule, told Henry that his client made the initial appointment with the woman based on ads describing her as 18 or 19 years old.

 He acknowledged, however, that her youth became apparent after she came to his home.

 Miller told Henry that her office agreed to the plea deal in part because DeVasier had no significant criminal history. Court records show that his only previous offense, a 1990 misdemeanor charge of drunken driving, was dismissed after he successfully completed a diversion program.

 Moule told Henry that DeVasier “lived most of his life blameless,” serving in the U.S. Navy, leaving with an honorable discharge, and working for decades as a local steel fabricator until he was laid off last year.

 He asked Henry to make DeVasier eligible for alternative incarceration programs within the Oregon Department of Corrections, which she did.

 DeVasier declined to comment at the sentencing.

 Eugene police Sgt. Kevin McCormick led a vice team that spent much of this year investigating a prostitution ring or rings that used the Internet to advertise local underage girls online. He credited both the diligence of the runaway’s mother and the hard work of his detectives with the successful recovery of the girl and the arrest of adults who exploited her.

 “It’s nice to get this behind us and get back to arresting people for heroin and methamphetamine,” he said, calling the prostitution cases intense and time-consuming.

 He also expressed satisfaction that the 14-year-old former runaway is doing well in a local treatment program for high-risk youth with substance abuse issues.

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Meth Lab Discovered In Motel Next To Sheriff’s Office

Children Discovered In Room, Sheriff Says

STUART, Va. — A methamphetamine lab was discovered Wednesday inside a room at the Virginian Motel in Stuart, right next door to the Patrick County Sheriff’s Department.

Sheriff Dan Smith said deputies received a tip and discovered the lab inside room 109 of the motel located on West Blue Ridge Street.

Authorities said the meth was being made while a 7- and 9-year-old child were present.

Three people, Greta Bowman McAdams, 40; Kevin Wayne Woods, 35; and Jason Leonard Staples, 28; were arrested and charged with possession of precursor materials with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and manufacturing methamphetamine while in the presence of children.

Smith said a hazmat unit was called in to remove the toxic chemicals.

“This is a sad state of society. Thankfully, the children were unharmed,” Smith said.

All three suspects were being held in the Patrick County Jail without bail.

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