SAPD Takes Down Local Meth Dealer

 

SAN ANGELO, TX -- The San Angelo Police Department arrested a woman today for selling methamphetamine. 

According to SAPD, on August 15 the SAPD's Streets Crime Division executed a search warrant at the 500 block of E 18th st. 

The warrant was for Debbie Adkins, 56, for manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance. 

When they went inside the residence they found Adkins as well as two ounces of methamphetamine, money, and multiple narcotic distribution items. 

Adkins is currently in the Tom Green County Jail and her bond has not been set at this time. 

Members of the Department’s Patrol and Lake Divisions, Motors Units, K9 Units, and the Center for Tactical Medicine assisted with today’s warrant operation.

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Carter has done something in his leadership of the S.A.P.D., these guys have steadily busted distributors in this city since he promoted. The pesky thing is that it is a process. Sometimes the police even know that these people are peddling filth and their hands are tied to do something about it because of the way the system works. I don't know how he pulls it off, but starting within a week of him on the job and drug dealers have been systematically broken down. Whatever you're doing S.A.P.D., keep it up! We need to stop as many speed demon's as we can, God knows how there are much more out there that we don't see, each one of these busts is a victory for the people.

Meth labs are hazardous, not only due to the volatile chemicals used in manufacturing, but the waste products which most 'cooks' think nothing of peppering the environment with. Kids, pets or anyone, who by chance, comes in contact with the various items related to lab waste are put in serious danger. Combine the health hazards with the fact that meth dealers attract every thieving emaciated fiend within the immediate area, validates the combatting of neighborhood meth manufacture as one of the few worthwhile battles within the "war on drugs".

As for how the busts are pulled off, Nate -- it's many times a matter of these meth head zombies rolling over on their dealers, hoping their ride through the legal system won't be so bumpy.

Meth dealers, I hate to be the bearer of bad news...I'm bullshitting, I love it in this case, but your next customer just may be "making a buy" for the sake of his or her own interests, and as the saying goes, "mother had you, mother f--k you."

There were some folks cooking meth in a pretty nice neighborhood in the college hills area back when I worked a newspaper route out there. As pungent as the odor was, you figure some sort of "probable cause" clause would exist that the officers could use to justify busting them, not the case.

I called it in and the desk officer at P.D. said that they could send an officer by, but he couldn't do anything if they didn't answer the door.

What I learned is if you want to help clean up the streets, it's more likely to come about by the scenario Lares used, a "snitch", rather than by a concerned citizen. That's not to say that people can't or shouldn't help... I would have pursued further action had it been in my neighborhood or a continuing problem on my route.

As much as we disagree, and strongly so, I can see why people get upset when a pot smoker can be arrested for a blunt after an officer "detects the odor of marijuana" in his vehicle, while a meth cook can get off the hook no matter how bad the stench of his "cooking" batch, as long as he doesn't answer the door.

As the daughter of the former head of the narcotics division of SAPD, I can tell you that my father spent much of my childhood working undercover to bust these vile idiots. Not only do they need to watch their backs from the people who roll over on them but undercover narc officers. I have a particularly violent hate for meth dealers. I have worked for the Serenity Foundation of Abilene twice. Once in 1997 and then again in 2007. As a tech who was responsible for doing admissions screening in ‘97, I can tell you that alcohol was the top drug being abused, followed by cocaine, then meth, then prescription drugs. In 2007, that order changed drastically to nearly 80% of all admissions for METH. That’s a radical shift in ten years. I had a book called “ They Call It Ice”. Everyone with children as well as anyone with a friend or a loved one should read this book. It reads like a horror story. This particular breed of meth, unlike the biker crank used in the past, punches holes in your brain. Not only does it have this awful effect ( as if that weren’t bad enough) it does it in the frontal lobe. This area of your brain is responsible for your ability to love, care, have empathy- everything necessary for being a DECENT human being- especially a parent. This new demonic form of speed is truly worthy of our horror. I agree with Big Daddy- the death penalty should be on the table for dealers and manufacturers because they are contributing to the death of a user’s basic humanity.

The war on drugs ( so called) is a failure to recognize what is actually needed for drug addicts. First we must understand that there will ALWAYS be addicts and alcoholics. It’s a problem as old as time; mentioned in the Bible. Second; putting users in prison is not the right solution. End users need treatment. Building prisons and putting people behind bars only serves to CREATE criminals. I’m all for dealers and especially manufacturers going to prison. However treatment and prevention strategies are absolutely necessary to combat this issue. Also, I am in strong favor of legalizing marijuana. Putting people in jail for a plant is faintly absurd. I’m also a pain patient who has been and is suffering from the madness of this ‘war on drugs’ combating the so called ‘opioid epidemic’. I personally have suffered from this madness. There are people who are even enduring surgery without proper pain management afterwards from the hysteria of this.

We need to take a good, hard look at this crap. Things should not be this difficult. We should take a hard look also at other countries and how THEY deal with the issue of drug abuse. Holland has no drug absuse epidemic because drugs are legal. Now, that sounds insane and I am not referring to meth in this instance. No question that stuff never should be used under any circumstances. However, when something is forbidden, it by rule of human nature becomes more interesting than it really is. I’m fairly certain that if we outlawed toothpaste kids would literally brush their teeth right out of their heads.

Legalize certain drugs and then you take the money and power AWAY from the murderous cartels. Tax them. Educate people about them. Yes; I know that’s extreme. I know exactly what I am talking about because I lived in La Paz, Bolivia. All pharmaceutical drugs are over the counter. ALL OF THEM. Bolivians do t even pay attention to them. If they do decide they want to buy them, they quite literally will buy them by the pill, not the box. It blew my mind. Hollanders and well as Belgians ( drugs have recently been decriminalized there as well) are the same. They do t pay attention to them because to them, it’s the same thing as Tylenol is here.

Either way, we have things backwards here. There’s a solution and if we can’t find it, people will continue to die, suffer- people like me who have done nothing wrong except have a terrible disease will suffer from pain.

Angelo PD, like any department in this country, doesn’t have the resources to stop everyone like this vile woman. They can bring them down every dealer in the city and then what? Another one will take that scumbag’s place. It’s a war we never should have declared because it’s a losing battle. We need treatment. Education. Legalization of certain drugs- but not all. Let us look to other countries that don’t have the issues we do. People continue to deal because they have the power and the cartels do. People use at first because it’s a forbidden thrill and continue to because they become addicted. How many kids try say- Tylenol because it’s a thrill? Take the power away from dealers and cartels and put it in the hands of the government. Take some of the HUGE amount of money we’d gain from taxing it and use it for treatment, prevention and education. Our vets, teachers and cops could then get paid what they deserve. Our schools would improve. I can’t be alone in thinking all of this...

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