My cousin made the local paper. We are so proud.

[littlebit]

2 arrested in meth lab raid
By Dan Packard



Police arrested a man and a woman on an assortment of drug charges during a raid on a methamphetamine lab Wednesday.
Officers of the Amarillo Police Department Narcotics Unit received a tip of a possible meth lab in the 1000 block of North Roosevelt Street and contacted the Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Unit to investigate the complaint.


http://www.amarillo.com/stories/090408/web_methraid.shtml

This idiot has been in and out of prison since he was 17. What the article doesn't say is the police found over $300,000 worth of meth at the house. We are all hoping he goes away for good this time.

[Shakespeare]

1. I've got a few of those in my family, too.

My cousin's 19-year-old son severely beat her and left her for dead (she barely survived) so he could take about $70 from her purse to buy more meth. He'd been stealing from her--openly--for years already.

The really sweet part? She refused to testify against him and begged the court to go easy on him.

[leftyclimber]

2. Oh, yep, I got one of those, too.

My brother. He had his picture posted in the national DARE office while he was in high school (this was WAY pre-Web 2.0). Sold drugs out of my folks' house while my dad was on city council. My parents were clueless about the whole thing for years. He was a real charmer.

On the bright side, lo these many years later he's FINALLY clean and sober, although it took him many, many tries to get there. Hopefully your cousin has a similar happy ending.

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