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 Melissa N. Seabaugh |
Shannon D. Boyer, 33, and Melissa N. Seabaugh, 31, both of Farmington, were arrested by Perry County sheriff's deputies Monday. Each woman was charged with two counts of felony possession of methamphetamine precursors, felony of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and misdemeanor purchasing more than nine grams of pseudoephedrine in a 30-day period.
Deputies stopped the women in the St. Joe's General Store parking lot in Perryville on Jan. 22 while they were traveling in Boyer's vehicle. Police made the stop after a phone call from the Walgreen's pharmacy in Perryville reporting Boyer for her purchase of pseudoephedrine.
 Shannon D. Boyer |
A log of pseudoephedrine purchases supplied by area pharmacies showed the two had purchased over nine grams of the drug -- the legal limit in a 30-day period -- at stores in Perryville and Farmington from Dec. 31 to Jan. 22.
Manche wrote that Boyer confessed to deputies that she and Seabaugh had purchased the materials so that another person could make methamphetamine.
Seabaugh was arrested Jan. 22 on a failure to appear warrant from Herculaneum, Mo., and held until charges were filed on Tuesday.
Arrest warrants for the two were issued Tuesday.
Boyer was released after questioning, but turned herself in on Wednesday.
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Ladies,
Thank you for your perfect timing for my anti-drug message with the children. Congrates you are on deck tonight. The article along with them sweet photos helps make Mrs. Gman's and my job so much easier.
Why can't we just stop selling pseudoephedrine. And alcoholic beverages, and cigarettes, etc... Wake up America, you are out of control.
Free magazine, that seems to be a fairly ignorant statement. People like me need pseudophedrine to just simply be able to BREATHE when my allergies act up. (And no, regular Claritan doesn't work for me. At all.)
Also, I quite like my alcoholic beverages and have not killed, injured or even bothered anyone else when doing so, thank you very much.
....."Default".....I understand your legal need for pseudophrine and I hope it soon will require a prescription to obtain it.
However, your statement about alcoholic beverages which are legal, if you are 21 or older, needs something added to it. It may be legal and you may enjoy it, but that does not make it OK. Look around you and see what the consumption of BOOZE causes. Auto accidents with serious injuries and death, family breakups, job losses, hungry children due to spending for booze rather than food and many other problems.
....and so it goes~~
I understand the Pharmacy Industry has offered to the State of Missouri that they would pay for a State wide electronic monitoring system of these over the counter cold medicines. I heard this on the news the other day after the first hearing on the introduced bill to ban the sale of all cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine. I do know we have to get a handle on this problem and stop these meth heads in there tracks, but why should ninety percent of law abiding citizens suffer for the ten percent that are violating the law. I'm sure we can come up with a solution that the Law Enforcement and the good citizens of the State will agree upon, besides completely banning the over counter sales altogether which will cost many good people a lot of money that they do not have because of a office visit to the doctor plus the cost of the prescription every time they have a cold or allergy problems which is very common in Southeast Missouri throughout the year due to the every day changing weather conditions. Many doctors are not just going to call in a prescription they are going to require you to come in for an examination and that is an office visit. This could very well jam up the doctors offices worse than what they already are and many people have no insurance now and the ones that do some policies do not cover office visits.
Whats Cooking???
Whats Cooking???
Those two ladies are too good looking to be users.
Ah Ha! The current system does work! Say no to Laws!
I was just thinking that we tried Prohibition in the States before, but all that came out of making booze illegal was that the organized crime people made a fortune from the ban. Not all the substances that man can dream up to use for making their lives more mellow are good for them. There will always be individuals to abuse even the most innocuous of them. Trouble is, the forbidden fruit is also the most appealing and the most likely to be abused. I seem to have better luck with cold medications that contain ephedrine and they seem to make my cold symtoms go away quicker, although I have to be careful not to take too much or I get too hyper! I wouldn't want anyone to interfere with my innocent use of these products by making it into an expensive, prescription drug just because there are local yokels wanting to use it as PART of an elaborate, harmful product they produce to get high on and make illegal money from. Prescription or not, there will always be someone else around the corner able to obtain the stuff. It might be a little more complicated for them, but look how much illegal traffic goes on with pain killers! Outlawing things isn't usually a very effective tool for controlling the criminal mind.
Swampy,
EVERY citizen, law abiding or not, will suffer because of law breakers, not 90% of law abiders. I haven't been to a family Dr. in 15 yrs. Now I will have to go every year to get my prescription renewed.
Mo Ky,
Auto accidents causing serious injuries and death, family breakups, job losses, & hungry children WITHOUT alcohol involved are much more numerous than those where alcohol WAS involved... simply outlawing automobiles would save many more lives, families, jobs, petroleum, and children.