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Today's Poll!Large Scale Meth Lab Seized
Friday, January 28, 2011
Members of the Maries County Sheriff’s Office and the Lake Area Narcotics Enforcement Group executed a search warrant on Highway 63 near Vienna. During the course of the search Sheriff Deputies located: a large scale and sophisticated methamphetamine lab, numerous items of drug paraphernalia, suspected methamphetamine, several weapons; and several thousand rounds of ammunition. Sheriff’s Deputies arrested James E. Czeschin age 28 of Bland, Chelsey M. Evans age 20 of Holts Summit, and Lacy Higginbotham age 21 of Chamois.
Czeschin had two outstanding felony warrants, one out of Maries County for possession of controlled substance with no bond, and one out of Osage County for Tampering also with no bond.
The residence where the methamphetamine lab is located is rented by Mitchell J. Krieg age 27 of Vienna, who has an outstanding warrant out of Maries County. Krieg was not located at the residence, and is now also wanted for questioning about the methamphetamine lab.
Czeschin is being held in the Maries County Jail on his outstanding warrants and is facing additional felony charges for attempt to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of controlled substance, and felon in possession of a firearm. Higginbotham is being held in the Maries County Jail for possession of controlled substance, and Evans is being held in Maries County Jail for unlawful use of drug paraphernalia.
“This was a very sophisticated methamphetamine lab. The suspects had altered outbuildings with exhaust fans, and cut holes in table to securely hold components of the methamphetamine lab.”
The Maries County Sheriff’s Office will continue to stand strong on our zero tolerance drug policy.
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Comments
treehouse 2 years, 3 months ago
Brilliant, put your highly secretive meth-lab in a house rented by a person with arrest warrants!
“This was a very sophisticated methamphetamine lab. The suspects had altered outbuildings with exhaust fans, and cut holes in table to securely hold components of the methamphetamine lab.”
By sophisticated, you mean... A meth lab? These people are clearly not sophisticated and the underlying problem is rural poverty. There aren't any jobs to be had out in the Ozarks and all of the mom and pop operations have been run over by the Wal-Mart that they plop in every town with a population over 1000. Beautiful country out there though...
Graceful 2 years, 3 months ago
No, the problem isn't ruaral poverty. The problem is addiction. There are people willing to take the risk to make this stuff for themselves and to sell becuase they can't keep a real job.
livefree 2 years, 3 months ago
Look, just because your out of work does not mean you turn into an addict or meth cooker, that is REDICULOUS. Get to the root of the problem, lack of parenting, a welfare system that promotes a lazy lower class intsead of an upwardly mobile one, and a bunch of kumbya well meaning liberals that protect this pathetic cycle of destruction. People like this have no pride, and havn't for generations, a tough love, that includes some suffering and growing pains would do any poor person some good, a policy of get off your butt and do for yourself for once. If a south American or Korean, or any other immigrant can come here and do it why can't these people?
3blindmice 2 years, 3 months ago
There is so much wrong with that response I don't know where to begin. I won't defend a meth head. But I won't group all those on welfare into the same pool. I have seen too many well educated and formerly wealthy persons lose everything and end up on welfare due to the unresponsible acts of the previous presidential administration
MK 2 years, 3 months ago
or even people become poor because they trusted rich people with their investments.
If you really want to get to the root of the problem, just legalize the stuff. Sure there will be some shock waves to endure initially but it will smooth itself out. The important thing is that the price of this cheap garbage drug will totally bottom out such that there won't be any real benefits for people to cook it up and try to sell it because they won't make a 500,000 percent increase on their time and money doing so. If the stuff is dirt cheap, then the worthless addicts won't have to steal so much of our money and possessions in order to afford it too.
There will be a downside most obviously but I believe it will be offset by the positive upswing resulting in such a bold move and will result in one big net positive, of course unless you depend on investments in the prison industries.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
It's hard to blame GWB himself since he didn't know how to pour p#ss out of a boot with the instructions written on the bottom. But, the present economic doldrums still have the fingerprints of his handlers all over them.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
Not true, greed is our greatest enemy, and corporate greed unchecked by government would be the worst. Reagan and Bush stripped the government of its ability to prevent what you're laying at the feet of people not even in office; this is your gift.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
Wrong again. The "evil liberal" is a bogeyman for the right wing pols to talk about to keep their simple minded followers in line.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
The liberal is generally good. They work to make life better for people rather than profit.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
Human nature barely distinguishes right from left, but this reply chain drifts ever further to the right so I'm going back to the left side of the page to thwart the evil trick moving me more and more to the right.
MK 2 years, 3 months ago
“This was a very sophisticated methamphetamine lab. The suspects had altered outbuildings with exhaust fans, and cut holes in table to securely hold components of the methamphetamine lab.”
By sophisticated you mean a meth lab?
No, by sophisticated they mean a rare instance where they find one such that the people don't want to kill themselves while operating it. If a kid propelled a paper clip with a rubber band, law enforcement would report to the press that it was a sophisticated weapon.
JCLifer 2 years, 3 months ago
Excellent post: So good it is worth repeating:
"Or are you saying being poor makes you take meth? Are the rural poor unable to take care of themselves? Maybe well meaning liberals should come in and run their lives...a big social experiment..oh wait, the LBJ's welfare state experiment beat us too it. People used to be poor but they had work eithic and self esteem. Now they have welfare, low self esteem and a drug problem. Thanks liberals you made the problem worse."
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
Corporate oil, not Obama, sets the price of oil. You'd blame Obama for indigestion. Drug abuse is a progressive policy, it keeps the poor quiet and happy, mostly.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
You, not Obama, are financing oil exploration. All the oil under American soil isn't enough to change the price or solve our wasteful demand; it can only pollute during production and transport, and enrich American oil tycoons. By all means, let's use Brazil's oil and save our trivial reserves for the day when oil sells for $1,000/bl, but the oily boys can't wait for long term sustained profits, they want it all now.
JCLifer 2 years, 3 months ago
Far better to enrich tycoons in countries that hate us, than for US to be enriched.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
US reserves have minor influence, especially short term, but not enough to change consumption or two-year trends that you lay on Obama. Even shales won't last long at our present rate of consumption, unless you strip mine it or mountain top it, again out of the desire to keep prices falsely low.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
It's not accessible enough. The cost to produce shale, with even a hint of environmental consideration, will price alternatives into affordability.
jeffcitygirl 2 years, 3 months ago
Honestly, oil is in too much demand due to greedy and wasteful habits of Americans who feel they need to drive huge SUV's to go three blocks down the road. If people weren't so selfish and lazy, wasteful and consumptious, then there would be plenty of oil to go around without having to drill in protected areas. Use, use, use, consume, consume, consume - the American way. Forget the environment and protecting the delicate ecosystem, just think of today and that big pretty shiny new boat, car, the bigger the better!
JCLifer 2 years, 3 months ago
Uh oh, someone let the ultra right-wing liberal out of her box! We Americans should all feel guilty for working hard and praying to the correct God that we are so richly blessed as compared to all the heathens who have no civil rights abuse their children, enthnic cleansing, etc. and who are not as wealthy as us to get off our butts and build a great nation! We should be ashamed that we want to live nicely off the fruits of our labor. The government should tell us what kind of car to drive, what kind of clothes to work, what kind of doctor to go to, what kind of food to eat, etc. etc. etc. We as so bad and greedy and evil. Shame on us for being successful.
3blindmice 2 years, 3 months ago
lets not forget that for every dollar we spend on gas is another dollar toward the ultra conservatives madrasahs that the Kingdom is building all over the world using oil profits. These are the same ones that hate everything western and believe women have no rights. The same ones half the sept 11 bombers attended.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
I will sing Kumbya at your wake livefreeofothers - you blame Obama for high gas prices, then say it's supply and demand. That would make sense if American reserves where more than a drop in our demand bucket. What's under Alaska and off our coasts is the highest-profit oil, but there's not enough of it to matter. BP's greed-fed and unregulated screw-up made a tiny hiccup in oil prices. We have very little oil compared to our demand, that's what's embarrasing.
asb 2 years, 3 months ago
You are sadly wrong. No matter how slow you type, our total reserves are not enough to anything but entertain OPEC. Short-term minor supply impacts at magnificant profit, but most of what's available is under other countries. Our disgusting, corpulant demand is what's embarrasing. BP's accident was the direct result of minimal regulation, poorly enforced by a nearly corrupt oil loving agency. My facts are sound, my agenda is our future rather than the profit of your idols who've convince you that you're one of them, There is hope; the right's insistance on profit over the quality of our future will be clear as all our ships rise with global sea levels.
Souperstar 2 years, 3 months ago
I have to agree with Graceful.
I wonder if asb has ever worked within an industry where government regulation has brought it to its knees. Well, I'll tell you this much, I'll never step foot in another Texas ER ever again (speaking on health care now). My wife almost died there, and you cannot imagine the conditions until you've seen it. Bums walking in off the street getting a meal and a hotel stay, and the nurses have to hand them their voucher for it. How does a system where those who do not contribute get something for nothing work? It DOESN'T. It's not the American way. If you want that, move to another country because you're trying to "change" what works. Keep in mind America's power in the world, and tell me that we arrived where we are today by following you ideals, asb.
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