Posted on 12/07/2010 6:51:54 PM PST by Rebelbase
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office say they have discovered an “active, working” meth lab in an office behind the counter at Moonshine Mini-Mart, which also serves as a BP gas station, on Hwy. 107 South in Cullowhee, about three miles from campus.
On Saturday and Sunday, officers from the Sheriff's Department, the State Bureau of Investigation and Probation and Parole served search warrants at two homes and one business, according to a release to the media from Captain Steve Lillard with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
“Officers located in excess of 400 grams of methamphetamine inside the store doing business as the Moonshine Mini-Mart, which is owned and operated by Scott and Charlotte Stough,” Lillard said in the release.
Scott Jay Stough, 38, was charged with felony conspiracy, possession of a firearm by felon, manufacture methamphetamine, possession with intent to manufacture sell and deliver methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling, to keep controlled substances, possess with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, and possess drug paraphernalia. Stough is currently being held under a $65,000secured bond.
Charlotte Jane Stough, 44, was charged with felony conspiracy, manufacture methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling to keep controlled substances, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, possess drug paraphernalia, possess with intent to manufacture to sell and deliver methamphetamine and maintaining a dwelling to keep controlled substances. Stough is currently being held under a $60,000 secured bond.
Authorities have also charged Darcie Heather Pelton, 40, with possession of marijuana up to one-half ounce, maintaining a dwelling to keep controlled substances, felony conspiracy and manufacture methamphetamine. Pelton is currently being held under a $51,000 secured bond.
Harley David Shearer, 35, was charged with felony conspiracy, manufacture methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling to keep controlled substances, possess with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, possess drug paraphernalia and possess with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver methamphetamine. Shearer is currently being held under a $57,000 secured bond.
More charges are possible as the case investigation continues.
Moonshine just isn’t paying the bills anymore.
Gee.... BP has to pay for the cleanup in the gulf somehow.
Damn, I bought gas there about a month ago and they didn’t tell me dthey were cooking meth. Geez, you never know these days.
I vaguely recall stumbling into the place oh so many moons ago, it was the only 24 hour anything at the time that was close to campus.
It was called the “Smile Station” then, though. Some sort of hippy granola throwback I suppose, with rainbow graphics and such on the building.
Oh well, there went a couple of the Lost Causers on FR. Maybe that overloaded History Channel Georgia whatever thread will finally die now that they’re in jail and can’t post here.
Never mind what company the gas station was, if that meth lab had exploded at the gas station can you all imagine what kind of blast that would have been????
A big one.
See! I’m a genius, too! :)
Yea but how big? How hard would the earth shake? Also how long will the under ground gas burn?
I’m surprised they weren’t selling moonshine!
When I was a kid we lived in Monroe NC, and I remember a tourist site someplace within driving distance that was reputed to be the biggest moonshine distillery in the Nation. The exhaust from multiple stills was routed through a hog farm and nobody ever thought much about a stinky steaming pile out in the sty. The were probably feeding the used mash to the hogs too.
North Carolinians can be so resourceful! All from the land of John Edwards, Jim and Tammie Faye Bakker, and the Mary Kaye Cathedral...
Yee haw! I know that location! Of course, I don’t remember that store being there, but it has been a few years since I was up that way!
Why doesn’t this surprise me.
Probably the tip of the “Ice”-berg too if this meth epidemic is as hugh and serous as crack and ecstasy and all that other stuff is/was.
Strk, they are pro-Union in their politics. It’s in the mtns. Jackson county. If it was moonshine, I might agree with you, but meth...no, that’s a special crew.
And, mercifully, Jesse Helms. Pretty bad shine from Monroe, in general. Market was Charlotte, non discriminating palates. Best stuff is in VA/NC mtn borders.
Appropriate, I guess, since Meth is the Moonshine of the 21st century; labs in the woods, and government agents trying to track them down.
“Strk, they are pro-Union in their politics. It’s in the mtns. Jackson county. If it was moonshine, I might agree with you, but meth...no, that’s a special crew.”
Ah, here we go again. I really don’t want to post anything more to that other thread since it’s too big and no longer on the front page.
I just received a reply from another poster detailing how goshdarn n*ggers were always going around killing and raping white people, and so the noose and the tree were entirely justified as a matter of self-defense.
Funny, I seem to recall that the constitution guarantees the right to a fair trial and legal representation. This sure ain’t justice:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Lynching-1889.jpg
http://yesteryearsnews.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/lynching-gs100th2.jpg
http://blackademics.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/Fene05_Shipp_Smith.jpg
Let us all be thankful that these horrors no longer happen in America.
I tell you, I’ve heard every excuse in that other thread. “Why, all that newsreel footage of police beating demonstrators in 1963 was filmed on a stage set somewhere. I never saw any actual protests. I don’t know anything; I didn’t see anything, I wasn’t there, etc.”
ROFL! Okay, you got me there, Wile.
I guess I need more book learnin’ after all. :P
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