As 7 Action News checked in with the police chief in Ecorse Friday, the department and city are dealing with a horrific crime that took the life of star high school athlete Dennell “Nelly” Kemp.
and using dope and her baby is running around out here barefoot and in 40 degree weather. but this is so typical, so typical. while sheriff turner serves the arrest warrant inside hey, paul, we re going run numbers on these cars. jerry s team searches the yard for stolen property. you can see how they are stripping vehicles. when you re on methamphetamines, that s why we call them tweakers because they tear stuff apart. i have never been to a meth user s place where it wasn t trashed out and a trash dump and living like this. every single one of them is this way. it s heartbreaking. never enending. yeah. never ending. after the suspect s initial interview hey, lisa? yeah? come here a minute. she tells the officer she is willing to talk to me without showing her face. you know, we re trying to do a show about how meth has affected this community, how easy it is to get and how it hurts people.
but overcrowded prisons have led to a change in oklahoma s drug %-p longer a felony. so instead of serving time behind bars, these users will soon be back on the streets, leaving law enforcement with an endless cycle of drug activity and city saturated with meth. but in rural oklahoma, the problem is just as widespread, and users are turning to a state resource to fund their habit. oklahoma is home to some five million head of prime beef cattle. it s a multibillion industry and it s under attack. agriculturen 102, agriculture 105. 102, go ahead. chief jerry flowers is chief of a law enforcement unit investigating a rash of drug-related cattle thefts for the oklahoma department of agriculture. if he s got five stolen cattle