“When officers entered the house, the
48-year-old suspect was in bed with a 17-year-old girl”
Clarksville (Texas) Times reprint of article in
McCurtain County Gazette.
Idabel, Oklahoma, Nov. 21, 2020:
Deputies seize moonshine still, drugs and guns
Sheriff's officers seized a moonshine still, meth, prescription
pills and guns while serving a search warrant at a Lukfata home Thursday.
Officers investigated a home on Old Military Road after
receiving complaints that a 48-year-old man there was trading teenage girls
meth in exchange for sex. After investigating further and learning of an active
moonshine still on the property, officers got a search warrant for drugs, guns
and the still.
ABLE commission agents helped deputies serve the search warrant
Thursday at the home. When officers entered the house, the 48-year-old suspect
was in bed with a 17-year-old girl, officers said.
There was a barrel of mash for whiskey cooking in the living
room, officers said, and a still making whiskey behind the house. Deputy John
Jones said officers also seized meth, used syringes, a large amount of
prescription pills, scales, baggies and guns.
Officers found hidden containers inside walls in the home which
were disguised as electrical outlets, but contained boxes inside the wall to
hide drugs.
The suspect, who is a convicted felon, was
arrested for giving a controlled, dangerous substance to a juvenile, possession
with intent to distribute CDS, possession of a firearm after a former felony
conviction, maintaining a place where drugs are kept or sold, and numerous ABLE
commission charges related to the moonshine still.
(Good to know somebody is keeping long-standing traditions in Southeast Oklahoma. Moonshine, drugs, consensual sex with underage girls. Age of consent is 16 in Oklahoma.)