• Actor Vince Colosimo, 50, will face court charged with drug possession
• He has starred alongside Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio in several films
• Underbelly star was arrested last September in Melbourne’s northern suburbs
• The father of two is set to front Melbourne Magistrates Court in February

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MUNCIE, Ind. — Authorities said a Muncie man pleaded guilty to three drug-related charges — and then seemingly disappeared.

Henry Thomas “Detroit” Lowe, 37, on Thursday was scheduled to be sentenced in Delaware Circuit Court 3. He didn’t show up, perhaps not a surprise since Judge Linda Ralu Wolf had already issued a warrant for his arrest on Jan. 3.

In November, he had pleaded guilty to the three counts — dealing in meth; aiding, inducing or causing dealing in meth; and possession of cocaine — after striking a deal with prosecutors.

Terms of the agreement were not available, but it apparently would have resulted in the dismissal of other drug-related charges pending against the Muncie man in Circuit Court 3.

Lowe entered the guilty pleas on Nov. 16, when Wolf took the plea agreement under advisement. He was then released to electronic home detention, ostensibly to await Thursday’s scheduled sentencing hearing.

On Jan. 3, however, Delaware County Community Corrections officials reported Lowe was missing, and Wolf issued the warrant.

On Wednesday, the Muncie man was charged with escape over allegations that he violated the terms of his home detention.

Court records appear to suggest Lowe was in Fort Wayne — more specifically, in Allen Superior Court 4 — on Wednesday.

He apparently admitted that day he had violated the terms of a suspended sentence he had received in October 2015, after pleading guilty to driving without ever receiving a license.

Lowe was arrested in February 2016, after police say he sold meth, for $25 to an agent for the Delaware County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force.

He was arrested again in May, after Muncie police reported finding him — and materials used in the production of meth — in a southside mobile home.

Lowe also faces at least five charges in pending Muncie City Court cases — intimidation and two counts each of failure of a sex offender to possess identification and driving while suspended.

According to the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registry, Lowe was convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior with a victim under the age of 16 in Florida in 2001.

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COLDWATER – Branch County Sheriff Office deputies charged Michael Keeton, 41, with methamphetamine-related offenses, after he recruited a woman to buy him pseudoephedrine to make some more of the drug.

According to court files, on Dec. 23, 2016, Sheena Deal went to buy the cold medicine used to make the drug, but she was turned down for too many purchases.

When deputies questioned her, Deal said Keeton persuaded her to get the raw material after she had dropped him off at the home of Deborah Richhart in Quincy, where he planned “to cook” the meth.

Officers obtained a search warrant and went to the home, where they found meth residue, burnt foils used to smoke the drug, and other hazardous components used in meth production.

Richhart, who has a prior record for meth-related offenses, told the deputies Keeton had threatened to kill her if she didn’t use meth. The report said the two had used the drug over the prior two weeks.

Keeton was charged with possession of meth lab equiptment, lab materials which are hazardous, and delivery of meth to Richhart, all 20-year felonies. She was charged with soliciting Dean to obtain the pseudoephedrine to manufacture meth, a 10-year offense.

Because of an auto theft conviction last February, Keeton’s maximum penalty is increased by 50 percent as a habitual offender.

Bond was set on the charges at $100,000, with preliminary proceedings set for Jan. 19 and Jan. 26. Other arrests are expected in the investigation.

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GREENFIELD — A Greenfield woman was selling methamphetamine out of her apartment on the city’s west side, police say.

Greenfield Police Department detectives began investigating Monica Badger, 44, 94 Prairie Meadow Lane, Greenfield, nearly six months ago, records show.

Investigators say they received an anonymous tip that Badger was dealing meth from her home in the Prairie Meadows Apartment complex, located in the 900 block of U.S. 40.

Detectives used confidential informants to purchase drugs from Badger on several occasions, police said.

Now, Badger faces three Level 5 felony counts of dealing methamphetamine; one Level 5 felony count of corrupt business influence; and three Level 6 felony counts of possession of methamphetamine, records show.

She was arrested this week and is being held in the Hancock County Jail on $100,000 cash bond.

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CRESTVIEW – A woman suspected of robbing a store on Christmas Day was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after officers pulled her over and searched her car.

The 48-year-old woman from McKenzie, Alabama, was not charged in the robbery. Her vehicle resembled the suspect vehicle, according to her Crestview Police Department arrest report.

After the vehicle was pulled over, a K9 unit came to the scene. The dog was “happy and moving fast around the vehicle” before stopping and taking a “deep sniff” of the passenger side door area.

Officers searched the car and found a brown make-up bag with four needles inside.

After the driver was read her rights, she said she does use meth but that the bag was not hers.

Her driver’s license was inside the bag, according to her arrest report.

She then told officers her daughter uses meth more than she does and the bag must belong to her.

There was no information about her daughter inside the bag, the report said.

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The woman thought she was going to a motel in Fife to meet a friend, but instead walked into a darkened room where her ex-boyfriend was waiting with zip ties, stun gun, machete and mask over his face.

After several hours of alleged abuse at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, the 33-year-old woman was able to escape and call 911 from a nearby casino. When Fife police officers arrived, they found the woman panicked. She was taken to the hospital, where she told police what happened.

Later that day, Larry Peters Jr., 42, was charged in Pierce County Superior Court with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, felony harassment, second-degree assault and violation of a domestic violence no-contact order.

Bail was listed at $500,000.

According to charging documents:

The woman went to the motel late Thursday thinking she was meeting a friend. When she arrived, the room was dark and the door ajar. She looked behind the door and saw a man wearing a mask.

That’s when he allegedly grabbed her, slammed her against the wall and applied a stun gun to her neck. She fell to the ground, and Peters used the stun gun on her stomach. The phone in the hotel room was unplugged, and the woman told police he took her cellphone.

The woman saw plastic zip ties on a chair fashioned as handcuffs and a motel trash can partially filled with water which she believed would be used to “waterboard” her.

When the woman realized the man was her ex-boyfriend, she told police she tried to pacify him, afraid if she didn’t Peters would kill her. He repeatedly sexually assaulted her over the next several hours.

The woman told officers she tried to persuade Peters to let her go, but he picked up a machete and threatened to kill her and himself.

The woman escaped early Friday and called 911.

Peters denied the assault, telling officers the woman came to the motel where he was with other people. He told officers they were smoking methamphetamine throughout the night. He denied using a stun gun, saying the injury to the woman’s stomach was an abscess and then saying she used the stun gun on herself.

He denied raping the woman and adamantly denied they had sex. Later, Peters told police he couldn’t remember if they had sex.

Police found two stun guns in the motel rooms where Peters was staying, a large knife, gel pepper spray, bear spray, duct tape, a machete, zip ties linked together and wrapped with electrical tape, an unopened bag of syringes, cotton swabs, alcohol wipes, tourniquet, phone and piece of paper with “leave Washington” written on it.

A second no-contact order was issued Friday preventing Peters from coming within 1,000 feet of the woman should he be released from jail.

A Spokane woman was arrested in Post Falls early Saturday morning after she was allegedly found with a large amount of methamphetamine.

Deputies pulled over a car driven by Ashley M. Allen, 25, near Pleasant View Road and Seltice Way just before 5 a.m. and saw her hiding drug paraphernalia as they approached the car, according to a Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office news release. They also reportedly discovered methamphetamine packaged for sale.

Allen was being booked into the Kootenai County Jail on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia when booking officers found more drugs hidden on her person, the news release said. Allen is now facing additional charges of concealing evidence and introducing contraband into a jail.

Allen has 18 previous arrests in Kootenai County for crimes including burglary, theft, trafficking in methamphetamine and probation violations.

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ABF commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg said the terrifying prospect comes as law ­enforcement agencies are detecting an increasing number of large-scale ice shipments.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Quaedvlieg also revealed Asian crime syndicates were using a new technique to import drugs, shifting away from the more traditional method of concealing drugs in shipping containers and air cargo.

He said drug syndicates were sending commercial vessels out of China and Hong Kong, “hitting our coastline with motherships” which were then meeting up with smaller “daughter ships”.

“The Asian continent as a whole is an epicentre of illicit drug production, with China specifically at the forefront of a tsunami of methamphetamine production heading our way,” Mr Quaedvlieg said.

Australian and Chinese authorities are working closely but face an almost impossible task because of the booming production of ice and precursor chemicals in China’s Guangdong province. Of particular concern is the city of Guangzhou, home to a burgeoning chemical industry across one of the world’s largest industrial and manufacturing precincts.

“Chinese authorities have begun a crackdown but the environment remains conducive to large-scale manufacturing of illicit substances alongside the legitimate chemicals,” he said.

Only last November, 90 liters of liquid meth from China, worth $54 million, was seized at Palm Beach. A small tender went out to meet a larger fishing vessel and returned with three barrels of the liquid.

Last May, $200 million worth of meth from China was intercepted off the West Australian coast.

“The use of commercial vessels to facilitate illicit imports is not a new phenomenon but there is no question we have seen a spike in the past 12 months. It demonstrates the adaptability to criminal syndicates both in terms of methods of import method but also types,” Mr Quaedvlieg said.

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(NEWSER) – There’s a reason people cleaning up former meth labs only enter in head-to-toe protection: the environments are extremely toxic, and drug residues can linger on porous and non-porous surfaces alike for months and even years. That’s according to a case study published in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that discusses one family in Australia that didn’t learn they’d moved into a former meth house until all family members began to suffer. Symptoms ranged from persistent coughing and watery eyes to weight loss, memory problems, high energy, and difficulty sleeping.

After months of testing in 2014 revealed high levels of meth residue, as Live Science reports, the family vacated their $500,000 dream home, which ultimately may have to be demolished. Australian officials call the meth problem there so pervasive it’s become an epidemic. Last year alone, police broke up hundreds of clandestine meth labs, where chemicals that include drain cleaner and acetone make for an especially toxic mix. “There’s no way I’d buy a house or rent a house in Australia without testing for meth first,” the owner of a company that cleans up former meth labs tells Australia Women’s Weekly. He says his business is booming, and that he’s already decontaminated more than 80 former meth labs. (Police happened upon an active meth lab in a sewer below Wal-mart.)

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Waco police officials credit a crime scene technician with recognizing a suspect in the theft of a purse as she was retrieving a restaurant’s surveillance video.

The suspect apparently had stolen a customer’s purse in a restaurant at 906 S. Sixth St. and used all or part of the $200 the purse contained to buy methamphetamine but then stayed on or near the restaurant’s premises.

A report by Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said officers were called to the restaurant about 11:15 a.m. Saturday. A woman said her purse containing money and a phone was stolen while she was eating.

The crime scene technician, whose name was not given, arrived to assist officers who responded, began retrieving the video and recognized the suspect nearby. Officers arrested the man, identified as John Thorton, 44, and found 3.7 grams of methamphetamine.

“The suspect directed officers to the location of the victim’s purse and phone, and officers were able to recover those belongings,” Swanton said.

Thorton remained in McLennan County Jail Sunday afternoon under $8,000 bond on a charge of possession of a controlled substance and $2,000 bond on a charge of theft over $100 and under $750.

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A man accused of selling methamphetamine from a Texarkana, Ark., apartment complex is in Miller County custody.

Brandon Jermaine Holmes, aka BJ, 40, allegedly sold an undercover operative methamphetamine in September and October during encounters at the Shangri La Apartments in Texarkana, Ark. According to a probable cause affidavit, Holmes was recorded selling 3.9 grams of meth at about 9:30 a.m., Sept. 16, at the apartments.

Holmes is also accused of selling approximately 2.9 grams of methamphetamine to an undercover during a meeting at the Shangri La Apartments on Oct. 12, according to the affidavit.

Holmes was arrested Jan. 4 and made an initial court appearance Jan. 6 before a Miller County judge. Holmes is charged with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance. Bail was set Jan. 6 at $80,000. Holmes is currently in the Miller County jail.

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LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) – A recovering methamphetamine addict says a recent East Texas drug raid illustrates how the problem of drug abuse is as prevalent as it’s ever been.

The seizure earlier this week of guns and drugs at two East Texas locations come as no surprise to recovering meth-addict Christopher Rodden of Longview.

“It’s really bad. More prevalent in the big cities than it is here. It’s been one drug to alcohol to another drug,” he says.

A Marine Corps veteran, Rodden became entrapped in the drug world doing meth, eventually moving to a dangerous new addiction: Straight shooting methamphetamine.

“It’s the most addictive, it’s readily available, it’s cheap. I started out smoking it, then snorting it. Then went to intravenous use. Very dangerous very powerful. You become completely powerless to this drug,” Rodden says.

More than 50 recovering addicts from various drugs are in the Highway 80 Rescue Mission recovery program.

“Whatever the case may be. Alcohol, drug addiction, or maybe a family issue, it gives them a chance to reflect on what caused them to be in this predicament,” says mission Manager Cedric Snyder.

“Hard to get away from, very hard. It took me to my knees,” Rodden says.

Rodden recovered at the mission and says more people will need a place like it to regain their lives.

“I’m putting God first in my life. Trying to rebuild what I messed up. It’s so easy to go back to drugs, you have to really want to be free from this addiction,” Rodden says.

Rodden now works at the Highway 80 Rescue Mission as a staff member.

Part of his recovery is that he is now trying to reconnect with his family.

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JARRELL, Texas (KXAN) — A traffic stop on Interstate 35 in Jarrell yielded more than 30 pounds of methamphetamine, says the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office.

The department says during Friday’s stop, a search of the vehicle revealed drugs were hidden in a compartment within the vehicle. The total amount of methamphetamine the department seized was 32.7 pounds.

The driver and the passenger were both charged with possession of controlled substance.

“Williamson County Sheriffs Office is aware of the damaging impacts that the illegal drug trade has on our communities and thereby let it be a warning that we are totally committed to aggressively interdicting those individuals who dare to attempt transport through Williamson County,” says the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief Deputy Roy Fikac.

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MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (WTVQ) – Deputies say a tip on drug activity at a home on Ralph Maze Lane led to an arrest on Sunday.

Deputies went to the home at about 7:00 p.m. to investigate with a “knock and talk” visit.  According to investigators, a woman living in a separate building informed them there were two people in the home at the time.

When deputies knocked, they say someone inside asked who it was, and when they replied they were from the Sheriff’s Office, and asked permission to enter, the person, identified as 45-year-old Alan Ramsey of Middlesboro, consented.

While inside the home, deputies say they saw a backpack on the floor, which Ramsey again consented to having searched.

Inside the backpack, deputies say they found ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamine.  They say Ramsey also admitted to making meth in the home.

Ramsey was arrested and taken to the Bell County Detention Center, charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.  Deputies say he was also served with two outstanding warrants.

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HOUMA, La. – Two brothers are in jail Monday after authorities said they ran a meth lab inside a home.

According to Sheriff Craig Webre, Nicholas and Christian Chauvin were both arrested Friday.

Authorities said Drug Task Force agents went to the home of Nicholas Chauvin, on Sandy Lane in Houma, in connection with two active warrants for distribution of methamphetamine.

When authorities got to the out, they came in contact with Chauvin outside and arrested him without incident. They also found his brother, Christian at the home.

After getting a search warrant for the home, authorities said they found tools and items commonly associated with making methamphetamine. At that point, Christian Chauvin was arrested, officials said.

Both brothers are being held at the Lafourche Parish Detention Center in Thibodeaux.

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PIERRE, S.D. – A Dallas, S.D. man has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child.

Donald Kelvin Story, 51, plead guilty to one count of distribution of a controlled substance to a minor, methamphetamine, class 2 felony, punishable by to 25 years in the state penitentiary and/or $50,000 fine and one count of sexual contact with a child under the age of 16, class 3 felony, punishable by up to 15 years in the state penitentiary and/or $30,000 fine.

Between Feb. 1, 2016 and May 6, 2016, Story engaged in sexual acts and provided methamphetamine to a minor in his place of residence located in Dallas. Story originally faced rape charges and was arrested along with a Colome man. READ MORE

This case was investigated by the Gregory County Sheriff’s Office and Division of Criminal Investigation and prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office and Gregory County States Attorney Amy Bartling.

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Donald Story, 51, of Dallas, pleads guilty to giving Methamphetamine and having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl

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Kentucky State Police arrested a Dawson Springs woman for allegedly trafficking meth.

On January 13, a KSP Trooper conducted a traffic stop in Hopkins County around 8 p.m. for an alleged vehicle violation. Donna Stanley, 32, was a passenger in that vehicle. During a search of the vehicle, KSP says Stanley was found to be in possession of suspected crystal meth and drug paraphernalia. Authorities say the drugs and paraphernalia were consistent with trafficking in narcotics.

Stanley is charged with trafficking meth, possessing marijuana, and possessing drug paraphernalia.

She was lodged in the Hopkins County Jail.

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