Michael Allen Roberts of Cedar Hill was taken into custody Sept. 11 after he was charged with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a firearm.
A Franklin County Narcotics Unit investigation has led to the arrest of a St. Charles man and the seizure of about 200 pounds of psychedelic mushrooms.
and then quit. if i had a job in a factory like most people around here, that would drive me up a wall. i couldn t do it. as second in demand of the franklin county narcotics unit, scott oversees multiple investigations every day. what are you doing there, super sleuth? scott s incredible. tenacious, never stops. come here. why do you smell like either. i don t smell like ether. always a pleasure working with you guys. it is 12:38 a.m. i have been on the clock about 16 hours straight. a mary rid father of two scott suffers from a kidney disease and had a transplant in 2011. as i was recuperating i was
ephedrine. but savvy drug dealers found a work around creating a black market for cold pills. they get multiple people to make small purchases and then a bill broker sells the pills to method cooks in bulk. the suspects the unit caught in st. louis with cold pills were just that, pill brokers. you are being charged with conspiracy to po tess pseudo ephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture meth. if you are not the meth cook or have anything to deal with meth. you are just a pill broker. how much did they pay you?
$50 for each one. a franklin county meth syndicate has been buying from this broker over a year. how many boxes do you think you have given him in the last 12 months. to be honest a hundred. it wouldn t surprise you if it was almost as high a 1,000 boxes. that wouldn t surprise you, would it? so you have made 45,000 off of them. pretty good business. the pill broker cuts a deal. hoping for a reduced sentence he will help the unit take down one of the meth syndicates. most of the unit s cases start with suspicious purchases in the pill-tracking database. scott finds a suspect wanted on assault charges who has also been buying a suspicious amount