[gerryann]

If these two were there for any period of time, they must have been coming and going. I would have questioned their presence. She has a ton of mugshots and she certainly looks like a drug user. Sad what addiction does to a person. She has a family somewhere.......

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by mrfixit

.....WHUTT.....Crime IN The Villages ???
OK.....we ARE surrounded by drug dealers and thieves.

WOW.....we now have a TOTAL of EIGHTY (80) drug dealers arrested
IN Sumter County in the last month.

REPEAT......EIGHTY (80) DRUG DEALERS ARRESTED
....IN SUMTER COUNTY......IN ONE MONTH.

During OPERATION "STREET SWEEPER" ....IN Sumter County.
... 25 were arrested on 01-Feb-2013
....53 were arrested during January....and NOW...
.....2 right here on Livingston Loop.....

.........KUDOS to the law enforcement officers....

No, we're not surrounded by dealers and thieves in TV. The only two we know of we're arrested this morning. All the others were from surrounding areas in the county. Yes, the surrounding area is dangerous. And I agree Kudos to the law enforcement.

[mrfixit]

Originally Posted by gerryann

No, we're not surrounded by dealers and thieves in TV. The only two we know of we're arrested this morning. All the others were from surrounding areas in the county. Yes, the surrounding area is dangerous. And I agree Kudos to the law enforcement.

My bad....
I thought surrounded by meant..."immediately adjacent to".
...We live in The Villages.....This forum is Talk of The Villages
...........WILDWOOD is "immediately adjacent to" The Villages.
.

There were 25 persons arrested on 01-Feb-2013
.................12 live in Wildwood.

[sueandskip]

Drugs are everywhere these days....Wildwood has had more then there share of drug problems ....The history shows that..An old train stop and turn around....You can find the info on the inter net ....

[redwitch]

I can see someone renting their home to a stranger here, especially if they were helped by that stranger. People are exceedingly trusting. Please note that the homeowner gave them permission to search the home, so let's not dump on the homeowner.

One known meth house in all of TV is not bad. I wouldn't be surprised to hear of one or two more and not just by renters. Since I travel all over TV, I was once offered a job making deliveries for a "gentleman." At first, I thought it was delivering eBay or garage sale items but when I was told I could fit the packages in my pocket, I asked if there was a chance I could be arrested with these packages. When I got no reply, I declined the position. This was not a young man, this was a man in his 60s who definitely owned his home.

Yes, it is important to know your neighbors, to be aware of what is going on in your neighborhood, to report suspicious activity. We need to accept that there is a diverse group of individuals that live here. They're not all going to be good guys, but the majority are.

Oh, and kudos to Sumter County for trying to clean up some of the drug problems. Eighty arrests in one county in one month is pretty impressive.

[delima2000]

All bets are off. The daily sun today has the story about the meth lab it's on page C5.

[graciegirl]

The Sun does a good job of reporting the news here. DANG it makes me mad when people slam it for no reason.

In the very nice area of West Chester, Ohio that we just moved from there were two meth labs discovered in homes that were rented in the last few years.

I don't know what anyone can do about this kind of stuff but it is VERY concerning. That house is toast, I would imagine as for being inhabitable.

I don't know what they can do about the hazardous contamination of homes used for meth labs.

It won't physically harm the neighborhood but I can just imagine the absolute disappointment and frustration of the decent folks living around it. Why do people allow things like this??? The story of "taking them in" is so strange. They certainly don't look like fine upstanding young people to me. Call that judgmental.

What an awful shame. AND I mean that literally too.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by delima2000

all bets are off. The daily sun today has the story about the meth lab it's on page c5.

bump

[paulandjean]

Did the paper say,the house was a "MethLab" and cooking in there,or they where selling from there or just living there. Big difference.

[graciegirl]

Cleaning up a home used as a meth lab.

Cleaning up Former Methamphetamine Labs

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by paulandjean

Did the paper say,the house was a "MethLab" and cooking in there,or they where selling from there or just living there. Big difference.

It probably was NOT as sophisticated as the "lab" shown on the hit t.v. show BREAKING BAD whereby Walter the chemistry teacher and his young buddy get into serious meth manufacturing and run ins with drug cartels, etc.

This was yesterday's news....he was cooking and she was helping.


Deputies discover meth lab in The Villages, 2 arrested
The sheriff’s office said the homeowner, who was not identified, gave them permission to search the home where they found meth and ingredients for making it in the attic above the garage.

Deputies said Huot was cooking the meth and Hyder admitted to helping.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

........

Has anyone read the Orlando Sentinel or other major newspaper ( or otherwise found out HOW this meth lab was first discovered????? )
........

The article in the link provided by buggyone stated that the discovery was based on an anonymous tip.

Bill

[OldDave]

Gracie, I appreciate that link about clean up. It never occurred to me that would be such an issue. You know our area of Kansas has a lot of poor trashy folks living out in the boondocks. Five years ago we built a new broadcast tower in a remote area of the county and I was out there a great deal during construction. The area was littered with run down houses, shacks really, beat up mobile homes, etc. Of course fixing the homes is never an issue around here. They only find out about the labs when the people manage to blow themselves up, which seems to happen about once a month.

As to this home owner here, is there any chance this was just a lonely person glad to have some company? Just a thought.

Looking at the mug shots these people look like poster children for meth labs. My gosh the dark circles around her eyes. She could do a zombie movie with no makeup.

[paulandjean]

Lots of 50 and 60 year olds in the county drug sweep.

[paulandjean]

Yesterdays talk about Marijuana,and todays talk of a Meth Lab" wonder whats going on..