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Two Chaffee men arrested on several drug charges

Friday, October 23, 2009
Southeast Missourian

David Turner

BENTON, Mo. -- Two Chaffee, Mo., men were arrested Wednesday night on a list of drug-related charges, according to a news release from the Scott County Sheriff's Department.

David Turner, 25, and Gene Summers, 30, were arrested after Deputy Rhonda Elder stopped them for a traffic violation. Elder and Deputy Chad Nixon searched the car the men were riding in and allegedly found items used to make methamphetamine and a glass jar containing a substance believed to be methamphetamine. Deputies also searched the suspects' homes and allegedly found marijuana, illegal prescription medication, other items used to make methamphetamine and other drug paraphernalia.

Turner was changed with manufacturing a controlled substance, possession of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine precursors with the intent to manufacture, and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. Bond has been set at $50,000 cash.

Gene Summers

Summers has been charged with manufacturing of a controlled substance, possession of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine precursors with the intent to manufacture, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, three counts of possession of a controlled substance (prescription pills), and felony possession of marijuana. Bond has been set at $50,000 cash.

As of Thursday evening both men were in the Scott County Jail.

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Good news. Keep all these type of people off the streets. Nothing good can ever come from these type of drugs and people.

-- Posted by azjimmy on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 6:47 PM

Yeah, waste good tax money on over-crowded prisons and lock up petty drug offenders. That's brainless.

-- Posted by heye1967 on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 6:56 PM

"petty drug offenders" lets see these two retards are charged with the following:

1. manufacturing of a controlled substance

2. possession of methamphetamine

3. possession of methamphetamine precursors with the intent to manufacture

4. unlawful use of drug paraphernalia

5. three counts of possession of a controlled substance (prescription pills), and felony possession of marijuana

to call these boys "petty drug offenders" is well. . . as you say "brainless"

-- Posted by kissrules2001us on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 7:22 PM

I guess we could waste "good tax money" on rehab; after all these boys are victims of their environment, poor souls who were set on the wrong path at birth??? Give me a break with the "petty drug offenders" nonsense. It's time to get them off the streets before they hurt someone besides themselves.

-- Posted by Costanza on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 7:49 PM

Someone is always yelling; "give us pictures". Well you got'em...ain't they lovely to look at?

.....and so it goes.

-- Posted by mo_ky_fellow on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 8:13 PM

look its burger chef and jeff

-- Posted by BootheelBoogieMan on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 8:44 PM

Here we go again.....

Aren't all these loosers a little behind the times when it comes to making METH?

I thought this was all the rage 8-10 years ago.

Maybe they also had a dramatic life experience years ago and are just now catching up. Stupid is as stupid does...or something like that.

-- Posted by CapeCrusader on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 8:58 PM

Good work Rhonda, but you need to slow that cruiser down when your not in pursuit.

-- Posted by TheCamp on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 10:55 PM

In response to heye1967..... to say it is a waste of tax dollars etc. on petty drug offenses is one thing but as for meth and drugs of that type in my opinion that is not petty and personally I am happy to see these type people arrested and put away. As I stated Nothing good comes from this drug. Many lives are ruined from involvement with this drug. Brainless you say.....well yes this drug does indeed leave people Brainless. Get real!!!!!

-- Posted by azjimmy on Thu, Oct 22, 2009, at 11:38 PM

We can solve this drug problem, just like Singapore has! Make possession, sale and or manufacture of these drugs a capital crime, and CARRY OUT THE PUNISHMENT!

All you have to do is take the PROFIT out! (Dead people can't spend money)! Probably wouldn't take more than about 50 executions, carried out swiftly nationwide and the drug problem would be history!

The only problem I see in this is that that law enforcement in many cases likes the money as much or more than the drug dealers! What happens to all that confiscated property and money after the trial?

-- Posted by Walkenstick on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 5:13 AM

Woo Hoo. Way to go sister. get those bad guys off the street. And Chad you didn't do to bad yourself. Great job Crime fighters. I can almost see the capes from Waynesville.

-- Posted by brite_eyes28 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 6:32 AM

Kissrules,

"To call these boy's" retarded, is also brainless.

I think we stopped using that brainless word decades ago!

AzJimmy,

You said, "Many lives are ruined from involvement with this drug".

Do you feel the same way about alcohol which ruins more lives and kills more people than any other drug known to mankind!

Yes, making Meth is a very bad decision. Using Meth is even worse. Nothing good can come from using the sh-it! However, wasting billions on a so called drug war is "brainless". There must be a better way to deal with the drug issue without putting addicts in prison longer than someone who killed another person while driving drunk!! My point you might ask, The system is broken and all things are not equal and the decriminalization of pot and some other substances that are controled is way over due.

Walkenstick,

Have you ever been to Singapore? Its a pitiful pimple on the Earths azz and so is their laws. Its an Island City State and the Government there is corrupt and ignorant.

From reading your comment I think Singapore would be a great place for you to take up residence since you approve of abolishing human rights!

Your comment about making drug addiction and or its use a capital

crime is absolutely the most Brainless comment I have read concerning drugs to date!

Come back when you have something intelligent to bring to this debate.

-- Posted by GREYWOLF on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 7:04 AM

Good lord, Rhonda slow down? Are you kidding me? "Hey cops, I know you are bustin bad guys but slow down". Lord is it so difficult to just say "Good Job and not complain about something". People wonder why some cops are jerks, well lets see the public bashes them no matter what they do. You know, I know cops and they go to calls such as a noise outside a house. That doesnt really require a light and siren response I dont think, but wouldnt you like the cop to hurry a little to get to your house or do the speed limit? Unless they are just driving around for no reason at 100 mph, I say leave them alone, espacially sine most of them dont even give tickets until you doin 15 to 25 over the limit. So give them that much, would ya!

-- Posted by SomeOneThatKnowsCops on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 7:04 AM

Another clip and save article for my kids anti drug message. Been a busy week here at the gman house with all these arrests this week.

David and Gene you boys are on deck tonight.

-- Posted by gman on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 7:07 AM

Finding concrete information on deaths pertaining to meth is not as easy as I would have thought. I did find this: meth use killed 224 Americans in 1992, 380 Americans in 1993, 508 Americans in 1994, 487 Americans in 1995 for the major metropolitan areas that reported. (1) Extrapolate that out and we're talking, say, 1,000 Americans per year are killed by meth (hell, make it 5,000 Americans per year and compare that to the numbers in the following paragraph).

Tobacco kills 435,000 Americans per year, alcohol kills 85,000 Americans per year, adverse affects due to prescription drugs kills 32,000 Americans per year, and cannabis hasn't killed anyone. (2)

While I do agree that meth eradication is a good thing, I do believe that, technically speaking, the government's priorities are ridiculous. It's time to abolish some, if not all, of the special interest groups. I'm tired of not being represented... LEGALIZE CANNABIS!

(1) http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/Treatan/treana...

(2) http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30

-- Posted by lurker on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 7:56 AM

The best way to take the profit out of illegal drugs is to do the same thing that ended the violence of alcohol prohibition...

-- Posted by bobby62914 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 8:32 AM

What's Cooking at the Scott County jail??

-- Posted by Glock_23 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 9:36 AM

I'm pretty sure GreyWolf is huffing airplane glue when she writes these nonsensical drug-advocating sentences.

-- Posted by shootermcgavin on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 10:15 AM

Thanks, Greywolf! You took the words right out of my mouth!

-- Posted by PeggySue on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 10:43 AM

Actually, shootermcgavin, Greywolf is spot on!

-- Posted by PeggySue on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 10:45 AM

In response to Greywolf....

First let me say that I do not approve of alcohol abuse and will agree that it does kill more people than any other drug. The fact that it is legal in the country I am sure contributes to this fact. Do I think it is as dangerous to the human body as Meth. no I do not think that. Do I think that abuse of it is a contributing factor in the deaths reported by alcohol...yes. Alcohol and Meth are commonly used together.

Here is a fact for you from the state of Az.

In Arizona, one in five childhood deaths resulting from maltreatment involve methamphetamine, the Associated Press reported Nov. 30.

According to the annual report of the Arizona Childhood Fatality Review Team, 10 percent of child deaths in 2004 involved parental drug or alcohol use, and in 20 percent of these cases meth was a factor.

Thirty percent of all child deaths were preventable, researchers said.

I ask you this Greywolf....do you feel that the deaths of our children at the hands of these Meth users is something that we as caring people should turn our backs on and say it is OK for these people to continue to use and make this stuff? Do you also feel that it is OK for these people to go around robbing and killing other human beings as well as many other crimes simply to get their next fix? You see Greywolf my statement that nothing good can come from this drug is linked to the other crimes that are committed by the use of this drug. Can you say that people using alcohol are out there committing other crimes against society in the way that people using Meth are? You are correct in that there are not as many deaths strictly from the use of Meth but when you take into consideration all the other crimes and deaths associated with the use of this drug I believe the numbers drastically increase. I believe that the users of Meth are potentially more dangerous to our youth than those using alcohol and do you not agree that the Youth is our future.

Children are present in 20 percent of homes with methamphetamine laboratories, and environmental exposure may occur.30 Exposure can cause headaches, nausea, dizziness, dyspnea, chest pain, eye irritation, and burns. Exposed children are also at risk for inadvertent poisoning, trauma, neglect, abuse, and adverse psychological effects.31-33

Another report for you...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that each 1 lb (0.45 kg) of methamphetamine produced in home laboratories generates 6 lb (2.7 kg) of toxic waste, resulting in complex and costly cleanup.34 Laboratory explosions may cause burns to those nearby, including producers, users, neighbors, and emergency personnel.35 Heavy metal contamination of methamphetamine products is also possible.

Table 1. Adverse Effects of Methamphetamine Use

Acute exposure

Anorexia

Anxiety

Death

Hypertension

Hyperthermia

Insomnia

Myocardial infarction

Paranoia

Psychosis

Renal failure

Rhabdomyolysis

Seizures

Sexually and parenterally transmitted infections

Stroke

Tachycardia

Tachypnea

Trauma

Chronic exposure

Cardiovascular complications

Cardiomyopathy

Myocardial infarction

Stroke

Dermatologic symptoms and signs

Abscesses

Aged appearance

Skin lesions

Neurologic symptoms

Confusion

Memory loss

Motor slowing

Verbal learning impairment

Oral signs

Dental decay ("meth mouth")

Psychiatric symptoms

Anxiety

Depression

Paranoia

Psychosis

Suicidal ideation

Now I ask you Greywolf.....Does alcohol contribute to all these as Meth use does???

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 11:43 AM

One more for you Greywolf...

Societal Cost of Meth Use Is Gauged in New Study

ERIK ECKHOLM

4 February 2009

In the first effort to calculate the national price of methamphetamine abuse, a new study said the addictive stimulant imposed costs of $23.4 billion in 2005. While the authors, from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., caution that many impacts were difficult to quantify, their study suggests that methamphetamine takes an economic toll nearly as great as heroin and possibly more.

Methamphetamine was named the primary cause of some 900 deaths in 2005, and the report estimates that premature mortality alone cost $4 billion. Its abuse has spread from Hawaii and rural areas of the West and South since the 1990s, slowly expanding to the Midwest and the East. In the process, it has wreaked havoc on addicts' physical and mental health and on their families.

Federal surveys suggest that the share of Americans using the drug in a given year has stabilized, at about 1 percent of the population over age 12, which is far higher than the rate for heroin but half the rate for cocaine. About 400,000 Americans are believed to be addicted to methamphetamine, but a rising number are smoking it rather than taking it orally or snorting it. Smoking brings a faster, jolting high, quicker addiction and more ill effects.

The study is part of a project at RAND to evaluate the costs of drug addiction, financed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and directed by Rosalie L. Pacula, co-director of the Drug Policy Research Center at RAND.

Extra financing for the report was provided by the Meth Project Foundation, a private group that seeks to prevent young people from using methamphetamine.

Dr. Wilson Compton, a division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the study's major innovation was its effort to quantify the effects of addiction on the quality of life -- how factors like poor health, anxiety and paranoia shrink the addict's horizons and pleasure over time. Such estimates have been made for heart diseases and other major ones but not for illegal drugs, Dr. Compton said.

These intangibles proved to be the largest costs, with an estimated price of $12.6 billion. Other major costs included $4.2 billion in crime and criminal justice, $904 million for endangered children put into foster care as a result of parents' use, $687 million in lost productivity, $545 million for drug treatment, $351 million for health care and $61 million for injuries and deaths at exploding meth labs and for cleaning up the toxic wastes they produce.

Because of the difficulty in pinpointing the role of methamphetamine in crime, medical care and other factors, the RAND researchers gave a range of estimates, saying the overall toll may be as low as $16.2 billion or as high as $48.3 billion.

Several potentially major costs were not factored in because they could not be measured. These include, for example, the burdens imposed on the families and friends of addicts, and the burdens of children who are not taken into the foster system.

The study is available on the Web at methproject.org.

Now I ask you this.....Which costs the American people more...Alcohol or Meth????

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 11:50 AM

I am for taking all druggies, child molesters, drunk drivers and putting them in concentration camps in Alaska. The arguement for these problems never changes and the laws pertaining to them do absolutely no good.

-- Posted by ArcticFox on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 12:01 PM

Greywolf...... Looks like Missouri tops the list.

Meth is a problem.

Here are the top 10 states for the number of meth incidents:

1. Missouri, 462.

2. Mississippi, 146.

3. Michigan, 136.

4. Kentucky, 131.

Considering the population in state of Missouri is in no way comparable to the state population of California I would say you have a BIG PROBLEM with Meth in Missouri.

5. Indiana, 130.

6. Illinois, 118.

7. Alabama, 108.

8. Tennessee, 92.

9. Arkansas, 86.

10. California, 68.

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 12:12 PM

"The best way to take the profit out of illegal drugs is to do the same thing that ended the violence of alcohol prohibition..."

-- Posted by bobby62914 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 8:32 AM

Quoted for truth.

azjimmy,

I don't care about sex trophies, so the wall-of-text you posted at 11:43 is moot to me. And the data you posted at 12:12 is just what [presumably] law enforcment has encountered (do you have a source for your data?). Missouri has dedicated a lot of resources to combating meth and the numbers show that; nothing more, nothing less.

GREYWOLF's point is that the government ought to stay out of our private lives. If someone wants to shoot some heroin or smoke some speed in the sanctity of their own home, let them have at it. Regarding meth, GREYWOLF stated, "Yes, making Meth is a very bad decision. Using Meth is even worse. Nothing good can come from using the sh-it!" This is supposed to be a FREE country, correct? Aren't our troops supposedly fighting for freedom? Where is it?

ArcticFox,

Alcohol is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. Aspirin is a drug. Et cetera, et cetera. Are you suggesting that the majority of Americans move to Alaska? Alright! They have very lax laws regarding cannabis there; thus, I'll pack my bags tonight!

-- Posted by lurker on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 12:51 PM

Lurker,

When the result of people choosing to do something becomes a burden on Taxpayers I believe it then opens the doors for the Government to step in and do something. If you choose to do illegal drugs that is your business just do not expect the taxpayers to pay for your care when it puts you in a hospital. Yes our troops fight for our freedom and we have that freedom but again DO NOT look for taxpayers to bail your A** out when things go wrong.

Stay in your house when you do it, do not go out and commit a crime against someone else to get your next fix. This would also include housing your sorry A** in prison or rehab facility.....Do the crime pay for it with your life not with my tax dollars.

All information I posted was from a source, do you think I just pulled the stuff out of thin air.

Suggestion for you....do some research on the subject so you then can make a responsible and knowledgeable comment.

As for Sex Trophy....what the H*** you talking about.

Nice to know you know Greywolf's point.

Again....you are free to do whatever you choose but do so at your own expense and not Taxpayers dollar.

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 1:09 PM

To thoses who think ower laws are not working its not that the laws made are not working its ower judges and attorneys work together and take bribs and let the offeneds walk with just a slap on the wrist in most cases.So next time your at the voting booth think long and ******* who you elect do a back ground check look at what they have got away with.And do you think they are going to be so honest with ther hidden record i dont think so!

-- Posted by stone_1967 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 1:22 PM

The strongest supporters of continuing the status quo on drug prohibitions are people (and organizations) that would lose money or influence with reform.

-- Posted by bobby62914 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 1:47 PM

Lurker,

More information and yes it is documented.

Researchers Document Brain Damage, Reduction in Motor and Cognitive Function from Methamphetamine Abuse

"Speed" Shows More Neurotoxic Effects Than Heroin, Cocaine, or Alcohol.

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2001/...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=77...

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 1:52 PM

To heye1967: Heres my problem with what you call these "petty drug offenders", if you would have read the entire paper you would have noticed that one of these "petty drug offenders" just became a dad on Oct. 14th. So instead of taking care of his new family, he was out making and selling drugs. Sounds to me that the only one wasting our tax dollars is this repeat offender!!!!

-- Posted by opinionated_n_mo on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 1:58 PM

Reform of drug laws is a tricky situation.

Clearly, marijuana should be considered differently than pharmaceuticals (legal, illegal and homemade).

After that, consideration of legalization of recreational use of cocaine, heroin, etc opens the question of prescriptions.

What about the recreational use of prescription drugs? If heroin and cocaine are legal, why can't someone abuse Oxycodone?

Then there are prescription only medicines that are controlled for other reasons. Can someone get antibiotics without a prescription? HMM. Some of those are controlled because their overuse could lead to resistant strains, making them ineffective.

Some medicines are prescription only because the patient needs to be monitored, or the dosage needs to be controlled by a doctor.

If someone can legally buy cocaine, then how can the government enforce prescription laws?

I don't know the answers to these questions, but they are things that have left me wondering...

-- Posted by bobby62914 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 2:04 PM

Greywolf,

Your comments are retarded...if "human rights" is a cover-all to allow this kind of behavior then lets just abolish all laws and furlough all police and do it wild west style!

Do whatever you want and who cares....our nation would last about 6 months that way.

There are acceptable standards for all kinds of behavior, so if you want to say it is my or your right to get stoned, then it is my or your right to kill anyone we don't like, or rape your wife, or abduct your child!

As for your human rights...well my Dad always said that is what going to prison was, you break society's rules and a judge REMOVES your *rights* for a period of time as a punishment!

A law abiding society has rules, if you break the rules then you *should* have to pay the price, but that is not how we do it here, we enable the bad behavior by saying it wasn't his or her fault, it's the way he or she was raised, so let them do what they want!

-- Posted by Walkenstick on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 2:26 PM

Greywolf and others that feel Alcohol is more destructive than Meth,

The following link will give you an idea of what the Social and Economic cost is associated with Meth use in this country.

That being said, alcohol is indeed a big problem and contributes to more deaths than any other drug period. My point in all of this is that even though alcohol is the #1 drug the costs associated with it socially and economically are not as great as Meth. If a person has cooked Meth in a house and you buy that house you are at Risk of everything left as a result of the cooking going on. Now, if a person is drinking in a house and you buy that house are you at risk of any chemicals left from them drinking?? I think not!!!

So again my point is this drug Meth costs we as a people enormously. Is our Drug War working??? Obviously it is NOT!!

SE Missouri has many areas that as Hunters of wildlife you enjoy going into just as those who simply Enjoy the outdoors and this drug does harm to all of it unlike alcohol. This drug also contributes to the increase in crimes against property that we as American people have seen and continue to see all you have to do is check the crime statistics in your area to see this is a true statement.

Here is the link

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009...

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 3:55 PM

They look like part of the Manson family!

-- Posted by Glock_23 on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 4:00 PM

The guy on top looks like the drummer for the old Iron Butterfly.

azjimmy,

I once served a bunch of Imo's pizza with black olives at a keg party, and let me tell you, I was very much put at risk due to the chemicals left over from that little bout of drinking!

-- Posted by lumpy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 4:46 PM

Lumpy,

I have no doubt. That is a good story. I am familiar

with Imo's pizza, not bad pizza.

-- Posted by azjimmy on Fri, Oct 23, 2009, at 5:00 PM

Azjimmy,

"When the result of people choosing to do something becomes a burden on Taxpayers I believe it then opens the doors for the Government to step in and do something."