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While many were scheduled for appearances, most of the action went on behind the scenes.
Three of the six individuals charged in relation to the first meth lab busted in Advance along Hwy. 25 were scheduled to appear Thursday.
David Best, Michael Mayo and Victoria Lela Nalley all waived their preliminary hearings and were bound over to Division 1 where they will appear before Judge Stephen Sharp on July 1.
Also in court Thursday were the three defendants charged in connection with a May 26 meth lab busted in Bernie.
Stephen Garrett Cantrell and Lauren Marie Story waived their preliminary hearings and will appear in Div. 1 on July 1. Kevin Matthew Henson, charged in the same case, also waived and will appear on July 15.
Two of the three individuals arrested in Advance on June 12 for distribution of marijuana were in court.
Tamika Tate and Anthony Williams both waived their preliminary hearings and will appear before Judge Sharp on July 1.
Also in court were the two defendants in a rural Dexter meth lab busted earlier this week.
William Chad Clayton, age 45 of Dexter, and Richard N. Gregory of Whitewater, both appeared and had their preliminary hearings scheduled for July 9 before Judge Joe Satterfield.
Michael Houston, charged in connection with an alleged meth lab in Bernie on May 6, also waived his preliminary hearing.
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Isnt it sad when Mr.Clayton is cooking and his dad is laying in the veterans hospital dying? Hope it remembers that on his way back to prison.
"Hope it remembers that on his way back to prison."
Dear god, feeling a little vindictive?
Yes, meth is a huge problem and these people deserve to be punished. But I bet if I could go through your house and know your entire history that I could find a shameful activity or two.
The truth is that addicts are people like you or I that happened to try drugs and pick them up. If you haven't tried them or become addicted, it's not because you're some special person with iron will and a heart of gold. It's because random chance dealt you a better hand.
Oh well... with that attitude, I'm sure your life sucks, so you're no better off than that guy. In fact he'll be released from prison eventually. Your prison may go on.
They're probably all just victims of the Obama recession. If that's the case we can expect a lot more to come. Without a job or sufficient income people do what they think they need to do to make money or supply a habit.
They always have, always will, recession or not. There's always someone willing to "experiment" and get hooked on vice.
Backwards, your assessment is pessimistic but probably true about the "random chance."
"But for the grace of God, there go I.."
You can believe that life is all about chance and luck.....have another toke. I will go on believing that personal choices do matter and will, along with attitude, common sense, morals, and decent character play a part in good people staying good people and not giving in to drugs and other things that ruin lives. These idiots gave into a bad habit and are paying the price. And my life doesn't suck.....
Another reason to vote for Layne Staley's breeding limitation initiative which would slow the population of the poor and dumb.
I would like to know what is meant by the phrase "breeding limitations of the poor and dumb"? I see this being used quite often when there is a story related to drug busts. This comment suggests that either anyone doing drugs is poor and dumb OR anyone poor and dumb must be doing drugs. I think this is a DUMB assumption.
Sloppy Joe. The term was coined by Layne Staley, a smart, but dead young man. He proposed limiting the reproduction of the poor and dumb. The phrase does not imply that poor people are dumb or vice versa. Many poor people are smart and many rich people are dumb, so both people in this case would qualify to have their breeding abilities limited. You sound as if you feel these pieces of crap in this article wouldn't qualify, which is where we disagree. Although following a Meth recipe does take some form of thinking, I would argue that it quite fairly labels someone dumb as helk, and under Layne's proposal, would call for a slowdown of reproducing what is sure to be more dumb rug rats. It is quite simple. Thanks for keeping up and wanting to be in the know.