Last week in rural Canadian
County, Oklahoma, Sheriff’s Deputies made a huge meth bust. They were at a truck stop, chatting up the driver
of a cross-country car hauler (a semi hauling other cars on a trailer on the
back), and when the driver told them he was from Los Angeles and taking the
load of cars to Missouri, got suspicious when one of the cars on the back was
registered on Colorado. They decided to
search the cars and the driver’s semi, which he consented to. Inside a secret compartment, they found
bundles of blue-colored meth, each weighing 1.3 kilos, with a total alleged
street value of $2.3 million.
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| Blue meth found in Oklahoma |
Two things are interesting: (1)
someone is making designer meth and apparently trying to market it on the
popularity of the show; and (2) smugglers are using unsuspecting car-hauling
semis to move the drugs around. It makes some sense from a trafficker’s point
of view. The best deadpan for a driver
is one who doesn’t know that what he’s carrying is illegal. On the downside, he might start chatting up
deputies at a truck stop.
The semi-driver professed no
knowledge of what he was hauling. He
also agreed to drive the cars to the final destination and let the cops
follow. When they got to Missouri, the police
(and likely DEA) found “more meth, guns and a substantial amount of cash.”
According
to the Daily Mail: 'It appears this was a long running operation involving the
use of unsuspecting Semi drivers to transport the vehicles containing the
narcotics cross country,' said Randall R. Edwards, Canadian County Sheriff. '
'The group was using sophisticated
concealment methods to ensure the safe transit of the narcotics and seems to
have utilized the small town of Monett due its rural location with a large
immigrant population.'
Six individuals were booked into the
Monett City Jail pending transfer to a Federal Detention Center to await trial
on charges of Trafficking Narcotics, Conspiracy to Traffic Narcotics, Money
Laundering and Weapons related charges.
An
interesting question is whether this was especially pure meth and someone in LA
was actually making really pure meth and using Breaking Bad as both a business
model and advertising. That much didn’t
come out in the early reporting. It will
be interesting to see if it does. Likely
now police in rural areas will spend a little more time watching semis hauling
used cars.
Full story and pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2469736/Cops-bust-dealers-40lbs-BLUE-meth--just-like-Walter-Whites-famous-formula-Breaking-Bad.html#ixzz2iyKLmZEN
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