WHAT A HEEL: Spun Turkey
Carter County Sheriff Tommy Adams (R) is accused of meth distribution for (allegedly) giving meth to an informant and snorting the drug through a straw, The Associated Press reports:
Now, a county once seen as an exception has become the latest example of how deeply meth has saturated every corner of rural Missouri life. …
County residents hope the case sheds light on the extent of the local meth problem as well as other crimes. Days after the sheriff's arrest, his chief deputy, 23-year-old Steffanie Kearbey, was charged with burglary and receiving stolen property - a gun taken from the department's evidence room.
No state has been hit harder by the meth epidemic than Missouri, which led the nation in meth lab busts every year for a decade before Tennessee took over the top spot in 2010, dropping Missouri to second. Missouri has reported more than 13,000 meth lab incidents in the past seven years. …
Other southern Missouri counties have had dozens of meth lab busts in recent years. But Carter County had just five since Adams took over as sheriff - two in 2009, three in 2010.
"I think meth is out there and maybe he knew what was going on," Carter County Presiding Commissioner John Bailiff said. "I think a lot of people just turn a deaf ear to it, including maybe the sheriff."
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