Posted on 10/03/2003 10:05:53 AM PDT by Wolfie
CLERK CONVICTED OF SELLING METH INGREDIENT
ENID -- A convenience store clerk has been convicted of selling an over-the-counter decongestant used to make methamphetamine. Claude Allen McFalls, 70, sold 10 bottles of cold medicine to an undercover police officer at Mac's Mart No. 1 in Enid. He was convicted Wednesday of unlawful sale of precursor substances.
McFalls could face up to 10 years in prison.
McFalls testified that he did not hear most of what Sgt. Kevin Morris said to him during the sale last August. The clerk said he would not have sold the pills if he understood the officer intended to use them to manufacture methamphetamine.
Morris said McFalls initially refused to sell him more than five bottles of pseudoephedrine tablets, even though he complained he could not cook up much dope with that many pills.
"I said, 'It's kind of hard to make meth when you can only get five bottles at a time,'" Morris said.
McFalls eventually consented to sell Morris another five bottles if he went out to his car for a few minutes then re-entered the store, the narcotics officer said.
Selling pseudoephedrine is not illegal unless the seller knows it is intended to be used for manufacturing methamphetamine.
McFalls was one of seven people arrested Aug. 22, 2002, on charges of illegally selling pseudoephedrine.
McFalls' sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 2.
You know the rest.
I hope he gets a judge with half a brain. Slap on the wrist, hopefully.
Hang him! He's keeping an H1-B from a productive job!
How pathetic
[Miller]s the first meth producer in North Carolina to be charged under the state law prohibiting the manufacture of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMD).Of course, until recently, the military knew the difference between a meth lab and weapons of mass destruction:Miller obviously wasnt making nukes in his kitchen, but he was allegedly mixing chemicals that pose a significant danger to public health, and the state attorney general agreed with District Attorney Jerry Wilson that the danger meets the criteria of the statute.
The statute defines a chemical weapon as any weapon, device, method or substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury through the release, dissemination or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their immediate precursors.
With Millers arrest, Wilson and Sheriff Mark Shook have unveiled what Shook has called a big surprise for meth producers, the new charge that is much stiffer than those leveled in the past.
From now on, meth producers in Watauga County can expect to be charged not only for possession of the drug and the precursor chemicals, but also for WMD manufacturing, a class B1 felony that will involve significantly more jail time, according to Shook, if the defendant is convicted than the possession charges alone
The 91st is a full-time guard unit based in Arizona, and is designed to assist local first responders dealing with terrorist-created radiological, biological or chemical agents, unit commander Lt. Col. Michael Lynch said.This old man was selling precursors to Weapons of Mass Destruction. Let's give him life in prision"We can be called out to help when local authorities find something that is beyond a meth lab, and could be a weapon of mass destruction," Lynch said. "We have equipment that can determine what a substance is within hours of obtaining a sample."
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At Gitmo, no less!
This is so disgustingly reprehensible...a new low for the jack-boots.
The clowns here who support this must really be proud of this JBT action.
Now that this seller of a 'precursor substance' is living off the taxpayers, I'm sure the clandestine labs are all shut down. Much easier work then hunting down the actual drug makers/dealers.
isn't that called conspiracy?
Nah. I believe this is the Giuliani approach.
People say, "How do the kids get the message that you're serious about drugs when you allow _________".
You start paying attention to the small stuff, and people think you are. Worked in New York.
My theory anyways.
Well, that certainly changes things. For a minute there, I thought you'd posted an irrational emotional appeal trying to pass itself off as an argument.
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