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May 23, 2012
Red Roof Inn: Free Local Calls, Continental Breakfast and a Meth Lab
So, in addition to worrying about who's effluvia is all over the bed sheets and if there's a spy-cam under the sink when you check in to a motel, now you have to be aware that the folks in the room by the ice machine could be running a meth lab.
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April 23, 2012
Larry J. Davis Pleads Guilty to Marijuana Distribution Charge
Larry J. Davis, the former St. Louis Police Sergeant who used his official position to run a marijuana distribution operation with his brother Linus Davis, pleaded guilty this morning to one felony count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and one felony count of possession ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
Linus R. Davis: Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Charges
Linus R. Davis, 43, the St. Louis County man who was charged with diverting seized packages containing marijuana for distribution and sale, has pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and one felony count possession with intent to dist ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Missouri Meth Lab Seizures Hit New Record; State Leads Nation Again
Confiscated meth equipment.Once again, Missouri has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in the number of meth labs seized in 2011. Law enforcement uncovered 2,096 labs in Missouri last year, an increase of six percent over the 1,960 discovered in 2010. Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and O ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Shake-and-Bake Meth Becomes Run-and-Gun
Bootheel Drug Task Force investigators were in Steele, MO, earlier this week watching a farm house suspected of being an illegal drug manufacturing operation when a vehicle left. The agents pursued the vehicle, which stopped in the middle of the road and then disgorged its driver, who took off on ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Cop Ganks Dank, Feds Spank
Here's why your package from Humboldt didn't arrive in time for Christmas: Sergeant Larry J. Davis of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department enjoys his job so much that he allegedly took work home with him on a regular basis. Davis is assigned to the Central Patrol Division-Special Operatio ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Prison Reform Would Save Missouri Taxpayers Millions, Bipartisan Report Says
Since 1990, Missouri's spending on inmates has tripled to more than $660 million, and the state's prison population has doubled. While the state's overall general fund has grown by 14 percent over the last decade, the Department of Corrections' budget has grown by 39 percent. For all the spendi ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Ten Suspects Netted in FBI Heroin Sting
Members of an FBI task force blanketed the St. Louis metropolitan region during the early hours of yesterday morning in a three-county sting operation in attempt to dismantle a heroin trafficking ring. The roundup resulted in ten arrests in the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles C ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Brandon Pool: Arrested for Murder of Homeless Man
Brandon PoolThe St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office last week charged 21-year-old Brandon Pool with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing October 19 of Carl Pearson. Pearson, a 62-year-old man who police say was homeless at the time, was shot multiple times in the legs and ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Q & A: Local Author Breaks Down New Book About Mexican Drug War
A few years ago while living out West, Sylvia Longmire, a retired U.S. Air Force captain and former special agent with the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, noticed that the news media often bollixed its coverage of the Mexican drug war -- a topic she'd been tracking closely for Californ ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Illinois State Police Uncover Massive Marijuana Shipments in Metro East
Illinois State Police have seized 743 pounds of cannabis valued in excess of $3.4 million during two traffic stops along Interstate 70 in metro East St. Louis within the past 30 days. On August 29, District 11 troopers stopped a silver Ford pickup on I-70 near Troy and located 633 pounds of can ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Kindergartener Brings Mom's Meth, Crack Pipe to Show-and-Tell
Mommy calls this her "little helper."Here's yet further proof that Missouri lives up to its billing as the "Meth Capital of the United States": A kindergartner in western Missouri recently brought his mom's crack pipe and $3,700 worth of crystal meth to his school's show-and-tell. According to KC ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
D'oh! Dealer Texts Sheriff About Drugs for Sale
Hey officer -- wanna buy some weed?We've heard of stupid criminals, but your average dumbass has nothing on Amy R. Horman.According to the Southeast Missourian, this rocket scientist actually sent a sheriff's deputy a text message, asking if he'd like to buy some dope. Naturally enough, the dude ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Burger King Giving Away 272 Million Chicken Tenders
There's a lot more where that came from!Burger King has reformulated its chicken tenders to include actual chicken with a new shape and seasoning for the breading. To promote these new tenders, the perpetual fast-food bridesmaid is mailing coupons good for free four-piece servings. Watch your mai ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Meth-Fighting Missouri Pseudoephedrine Ban Could Face Filibuster
Sudafed shouldn't need a 'scrip, says State Senator Rob Schaaf.In hopes of combating the state's never-ending meth problem, state legislators have been pushing a bill to make cold medicines that include pseudoephedrine available by prescription only.That would include Sudafed, Claritin and a host ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Comment of the Day: Dime Stores and Dime Bags
A post today about the possible sale of heroin near the Starbuck's in Webster Grove's Old Orchard business district elicited a funny from one of our favorite commenters. Writes KittyLitterKing: I heard the sales clerks at the Ben Franklin store around the corner are drug mules, too.
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March 9, 2011
Carlos Boles: Felon Who Killed U.S. Marshal Had Lengthy Rap Sheet
Fox 2Carlos BolesAs you've likely heard by now, one of the U.S. marshals shot yesterday while trying to arrest a suspect yesterday in St. Louis on drug and assault charges is now dead. John Perry, 48, succumbed to a bullet wound around 7 p.m. Tuesday at Saint Louis University Hospital. Another ma ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Missouri Leads Nation in Meth Lab Busts -- Again
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMeth lab detritus seized last year in Franklin County.For the tenth year in a row, Missouri led the nation in the number of meth lab seizures last year. In 2010, Missouri law enforcement busted 1,960 meth labs, a 10 percent increase over the 1,774 busts in 2009 and a 53 ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Cops Bust Truck Hauling Tomatoes and 600 Pounds of Pot on I-55/70
On Monday morning, February 14, Illinois State Police found 600 pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer hauling tomatoes on Interstate 55/70 near Highway 159 in Collinsville. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Jose A. Martinez of Glendale, Arizona, and Manuel Medrano of Merced, Calif ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Man Dials Wrong Number, Offers Drugs to Cop
Are you sure I have the right number?Note to drug dealers: Put your clients on speed dial. Otherwise you might end up like the unfortunate dope supplier in southeastern Missouri who inadvertently phoned a police officer and attempted to sell him hydrocodone pills earlier this week. The cop ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Dominic Orlando: De Soto Man Busted for Home Meth Lab
Dominic Orlando: His chemistry skills caught up with him yesterday.Dominic Orlando, 47, was arrested by Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies yesterday and charged with possession of chemicals with intent to distribute.And, this being Missouri, we're not talking about calcium chloride or ferrous su ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Camp Zoe Update: Highway Patrol Busted Thousands En Route To Festivals
Image viaSince 2007, state troopers have arrested more than 2,000 people at checkpoints near Camp Zoe Just after midnight on October 29, 2008, the Missouri State Highway Patrol pulled over a 1989 Ford van on Route 19 in Eminence, Missouri. The driver, a 23-year-old from Desoto named Joseph Wayne ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Roadblock: Highway Patrol Busted Thousands En Route To Camp Zoe
Image viaSince 2007, state troopers have arrested more than 2,000 people at checkpoints near Camp Zoe Just after midnight on October 29, 2008, the Missouri State Highway Patrol pulled over a 1989 Ford van on Route 19 in Eminence, Missouri. The driver, a 23-year-old from Desoto named Joseph Wayne ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Jay Nixon and Chris Koster Propose Pseudoephedrine Prescription to Cure Missouri's Meth Problem
Image viaLet's hope meth cooks don't have health insuranceThe Show-Me State's governor and attorney general announced today that they support a law to require a doctor's prescription to obtain pseudoephedrine, an ingredient found in several types of cold medicine that can be used to manufacture m ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Missouri on Pace to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Seizures -- Again
Image ViaA "shake and bake" lab.It's looking like 2010 will mark the 10th consecutive year that Missouri leads the nation in the number meth labs confiscated by police. As the Southeast Missourian reports today, Missouri law enforcement has seized more than 1,400 meth labs through September -- an ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Pinalcchio: Forensics experts say a deputy's tale about getting shot by drug smugglers doesn't add up
Image ViaA "shake and bake" lab.It's looking like 2010 will mark the 10th consecutive year that Missouri leads the nation in the number meth labs confiscated by police. As the Southeast Missourian reports today, Missouri law enforcement has seized more than 1,400 meth labs through September -- an ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Asylum Denied: Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
Image ViaA "shake and bake" lab.It's looking like 2010 will mark the 10th consecutive year that Missouri leads the nation in the number meth labs confiscated by police. As the Southeast Missourian reports today, Missouri law enforcement has seized more than 1,400 meth labs through September -- an ... More >>
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August 24, 2010
Seven Arrested in Jefferson County Meth Lab Bust
Meth: It does a body bad.A meth lab seizure in Jefferson County last week has led to drug charges against five area men and two females. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, deputies arrived last Thursday to a residence in the 12000 block of Big Pine Place in rural Desoto aft ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Reggie Moses: Convicted of Robbing Drug Dealers, Impersonating Omar From The Wire
Image viaOmar Little or Reggie Moses?"Let's say we had a disagreement.""A disagreement over...?""Well, you see, Mike-Mike thought he should keep that cocaine he was slingin' and the money he was makin' from slingin' it. I thought otherwise."That's an excerpt from the famous courtroom scene in the ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Man Arrested in East St. Louis Trafficking 143 Pounds of Cocaine
Q: What does Tony Montana call 65 kilos of cocaine? A: Breakfast.Dios mios, that's a lot of coke. Hilario Medina of Houston has been charged with trafficking cocaine after being caught with 65 kilos (143 lbs.) of the drug in route to Chicago. The Associated Press reports that Medina, 45, wa ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital
Q: What does Tony Montana call 65 kilos of cocaine? A: Breakfast.Dios mios, that's a lot of coke. Hilario Medina of Houston has been charged with trafficking cocaine after being caught with 65 kilos (143 lbs.) of the drug in route to Chicago. The Associated Press reports that Medina, 45, wa ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Steven Martin: The Second-Most Disturbing Mugshot You'll See This Week
Jesse Driskill, meet Steven Martin:Image sourceWink Wink Steven Martin is in the ClinkMartin (definitely not the banjo-strumming comedian, as the immaculate mugshot above makes clear) was indicted earlier this week for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. A whole lot of methamphetamine.
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July 8, 2010
Whose Relative Embarrassed Them More this Week -- Francis Slay's or Charlie Dooley's?
Dooley and Slay: Not the black sheep of the family. So, I'm thinking St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley is probably going to win this one, but we'll throw it out to you -- the reader -- to decide. Dooley and his city counterpart, Mayor Francis Slay, both tangentially made news yesterday fo ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Shots and Books
Dooley and Slay: Not the black sheep of the family. So, I'm thinking St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley is probably going to win this one, but we'll throw it out to you -- the reader -- to decide. Dooley and his city counterpart, Mayor Francis Slay, both tangentially made news yesterday fo ... More >>
News
June 16, 2010
The Killer of His Daughter's Mother
A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East LA executioner
News
June 9, 2010
Cowboy Down
Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher
Blogs
June 4, 2010
Missouri Poised to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Busts For Fourth Straight Year
Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border
Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Dennis Powell: Hannibal Man Sentenced for Drugs Busted Trying to Bring Pot to Prison
hannibal.netDennis PowellIf at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again. That's the lesson learned from Dennis R. Powell. Powell, 19, was being processed at the Marion County Jail in Palmyra, Missouri, this month on a previous drug charge when authorities say they discovered marijuana on the new ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Are Some Missouri Counties Ignoring Meth Labs?
Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
The potentially explosive "shake-and-bake" method is burning its way through meth land
Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>
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May 10, 2010
Serious Weight: Dealer Sentenced for Moving 8.5 Tons of Pot Over 5 Years
So, exactly how much is 8.5 tons of pot? Obligatory photograph of pot.Answer: 17,000 pounds or 7,711 kilograms or 103 Michael Phelpses or 38,555 copies of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon or 453,592 Twinkies or 131,949 White Castle Sliders. That's how much mary jane an East St. Louis drug de ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
Missouri State Troopers Nab 3,700 Pounds of Marijuana
Missouri Highway PatrolA file photo from a 2009 Missouri bust that netted just 1,350 pounds of pot.Updated: 3:27 p.m.Just spoke to Sgt. Jim Haggett of the Missouri Highway Patrol's Troop E. Haggett informs that while large, Sunday's bust of 3,669 pounds of pot is shy of the record 4,100 pounds of ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Missouri: Nation's Meth Capital, Again
Did ya here? We're No. 1!Missouri has once again been ranked as the nation's biggest meth-producing state based on the number of drug labs busted last year. According to Missouri Highway Patrol figures published today in the Post-Dispatch, law enforcement seized 1,774 meth labs in 2009 -- up 20 p ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
Marvin Barnes, Rising ABA Star in the 1970s, Tells of Drug Dealing with the St. Louis Mob
Marvin Barnes as an ABA playerLooking back on his time playing for the Spirits of St. Louis in the 1970s, Marvin Barnes says he was one of the top five basketball players on the planet. He may well have been: As a player in the American Basketball Association, he earned Rookie of the Year honors ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Your Coke Connection Might Be "Cerrado": Ten St. Louisans Busted In Nationwide Sting
In a two-day bodyslam of the Mexican drug cartel, "La Familia," law enforcers in 19 different states arrested 303 individuals, including 10 from the St. Louis area. Five of the locals put in bracelets were Mexican nationals: Wlfrado Navarrete-Hernandez, 36, St. Ann, MOMaria Valazquez, 40, St. Ann ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
"Club TV One" Owner Pleads Guilty to Having 418 lbs. of Pot, Transporting Stolen Goods
An advertisement for Club TV One from earlier this year.Last time we mentioned Robert Williams here on Daily RFT, the 46-year-old Kirkwood resident had just earned a nomination in one of our first Ass Clown of the Week competitions. That was back in April when law enforcement raided his East St. ... More >>
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October 14, 2009
Scary Numbers Part II: Man Has 11 Kids, Gets 13 Years In Jail, For Selling 62.4 Grams of Crack
www.flickr.com/photos/skyzyxA week ago we crunched the numbers on Christopher Elders, the 30 year-old Affton man who posed as a 17 year-old in order to sodomize a 14 year-old girl. The criminal testing our math skills this time around is Lewis Lawson of East St. Louis. Lawson, 32, was sentenced t ... More >>
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August 27, 2009
U.S. Drug Czar to Unveil New Anti-Meth Campaign in Drug's Hotspot: St. Louis
Whatever your feelings about the Obama administration, you can't say that the president's office ignores St. Louis. Obama chose to visit the nearby suburb of Arnold for his 100th day in office. A couple month's later the prez returned to St. Louis to throw out the first pitch at the All-Star Game ... More >>
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July 21, 2009
St. Louis Police Dismantle North City Drug Ring; 15 Members of Gang Indicted
The U.S. Attorney's Office and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department today announced the indictment and arrest of 15 area people charged with operating a major cocaine operation in St. Louis. The investigation focused on gang-related drug activity in the Jeff Vander Lou area (see map below) o ... More >>
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