Posted on 03/13/2006 10:27:11 AM PST by SittinYonder
Wednesday afternoon fishing expeditions frequently spawn fish tales about “the one that got away,” but when Putnam County’s sheriff and DARE officer went fishing last week they caught a man with 37 grams of methamphetamine.
Sheriff Howard Sills said he and Harry Luke, who serves as the DARE officer for the sheriff’s office, went fishing on a lake at the BF Grant Wildlife Management Area around 2 p.m. last Wednesday, March 1. “We weren’t catching anything, so we decided to leave,” Sills said.
About 6 p.m., they passed a GMC Suburban with its hazard lights on parked on the side of Godfrey Road just north of Hearnville Road. The vehicle hadn’t been there when they passed by earlier in the day, so they stopped to check on it.
Sills said it looked like it had been stripped.
“The right tail light assembly had been pulled out, the emblems were off the truck, the bottom of the dashboard had been pulled out, the gear shift knob and the radio were both gone. It had ‘stolen’ written all over it,” Sills said.
They called for a uniform deputy, and while they were waiting a pickup truck with a man and a woman pulled up and parked.
“The woman in the truck says it was her car and she’d hit a deer down the road and put the car there around noon,” Sills said. “We knew that wasn’t right. Both the man and the woman made false statements. The female was out on bond with a meth charge. We searched the man and found a gram of meth in his pocket, and there was meth and marijuana in (the woman’s) purse.”
Sills said the man was identified as Anthony Greg Murphy, of Gainesville. Murphy, who with his father owns a well drilling business in Gainesville, has been working off-and-on for several weeks on the University of Georgia’s Experiment Station property for the U.S. Geological Survey drilling wells for seismic measuring devices. He’s been living in a camper on the property, Sills said.
According to an incident report, the woman was identified as 33-year-old Susan Elizabeth Tremmel of Dahlonega. According to the report, Luke told Tremmel that he was concerned that “she was possibly under the influence of methamphetamine.”
“After advising her of this, she stated she did have a problem with methamphetamine and she was only down there visiting Mr. Murphy for the sex and she was upset that when she showed up there was another woman already there with (Murphy),” the report states.
A search of Murphy’s camper produced 37 grams of methamphetamine, a 9 mm Sig Sauer pistol, and at the camper authorities also found the missing pieces of the Suburban, Sills said.
“This is only speculation, but we think they may have been getting ready to report (the Suburban) stolen,” Sills said.
Under the law, 28 grams of meth is considered enough for a trafficking charge.
“We found 37 grams in the camper. That’s a lot of it for an individual to have,” Sills said.
Murphy was charged with trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Tremmel was charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of hydrocodone and alprazolam tablets.
The sheriff’s office seized the Suburban, the camper and the pickup truck.
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It's the R-rated version.
If you go to www.msgr.com you can see mugshots of the two.
I hope they threw him back. Them things is hard to clean.
Thanks.
In my day, it only took about 10 grams of meth to catch a man. Times sure have changed.
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I don't know, Barney and Thelma Lou could have been up to who knows what at the lake. Earnest T. Bass struck me as a bit of a voyeur and stalker, and Helen was completely frustrated. Floyd the barber always seemed a bit light in the loafers. The little Darling girl was the local Lolita, and Howard Spraig, well, let's not even go there! Kinky bunch really.
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