Methamphetamine

Stanley Haney, Solicting Underage Sex Online, Stars In A Picture For The Ages

As it so often does, the indispensable Montgomery County Police Reporter has gone the extra mile to illustrate the soulless existential nightmare that is suburban/rural crime. Usually the MCPR accomplishes this feat through simple reportage, letting the sad facts about assaults, abuse of pick-up tr ... More >>

Liquid-Meth-In-The-Shampoo-Bottle Trick Doesn't Work for Women in Brownsville

You might say that law enforcement personnel assigned to the Brownsville bus station has seen it all, especially with the smuggling (or attempted transportation) of illegal substances. "With the U.S.-Mexico border being right there, there are a lot of drugs on the main highway and in the bus termi ... More >>

Rockport Meth Trailer Yields Strong Ice; Pit Bull Killed in Raid

A pit bull is dead and three people have been arrested after a police raid on a Rockport meth house. According to KIII-TV, police found more than $1,000 and eight grams of high-grade ice hidden in an Altoids can and a pill bottle inside the trailer home. Elizabeth Martinez, 44, Sean Lee Harrison, ... More >>

William Duncan, East Texas Teacher, Busted Peddling Meth in Junior High Parking Lot, Police Say

First there was a real-life Walter White busted allegedly selling meth in Alabama...And now we have the case of William Duncan, 43-year-old junior high science teacher in Cass County, Texas. According to police in the town of Linden, Duncan sold meth to an undercover cop in the parking lot of his w ... More >>

Lindsay Ann Grice: Accused Klein Meth Cook Advertises Business on LinkedIn, Faces Arson Charge After Friend Is Burned in Explosion

New charges have been filed in connection to a Klein meth fire that sent one man to the hospital with critical injuries and two others to jail. Harris County Sheriff's deputies arrested Lindsay Ann Grice, 25, and Thurman Lee Hall, 37, back on May 24 after a pot of what they allege was meth exploded ... More >>

7Horse's "Meth Lab Zoso Sticker" Hits Radio Brick Wall

7Horse playing their AAA Top 40 single "Low Fuel Drug Run" A 20-year member of Los Angeles rock ensemble Dada, drummer Phil Leavitt is no newcomer to the music business. Leavitt and Dada bassist Joie Calio formed their own band 7Horse last year, and dropped the hard-rocking debut, Let the 7Horse Ru ... More >>

Bahram Arabpour: Austin-area Realtor Busted Here With Almost Two Pounds of Opium.

More evidence that Houston has arrived as a world-class city: it is now apparently the kind of town where you can get your hands on large quantities of opium. Yes, if Harris County Court records are to believed, Houston is now a market for the same "celestial drug" that in 1822 Thomas De Quincey rh ... More >>

So You Want to Buy a Former Meth Lab!: Meth-Testing Houses the New Big Thing

There are lots of important things to consider when choosing an apartment, house or trailer: commute time, distance to retail centers, public schools -- but perhaps the most important thing of all is, "How do I get rid of that stagnant meth-lab odor?" Well, thanks to companies like USA Decon, you ... More >>

The Old Meth-in-the-Vadge Trick: Two Trinity County Women Try to Pull It in Two Weeks

A text-message sent to an undercover led to the arrest of two meth suspects at the gates of the Trinity, Texas, suburb called Hawg Heaven on Monday. Trinity County Constable Woody Wallace told KTRE that when he and Trinity police arrived on the scene, Brittany Williams, 22, and Shaun Calhoun, 28, w ... More >>

Christmas Catfight Lands Mom and (Alleged) Meth-Peddling Daughter Behind Bars (w/VIDEO)

Trinity County Constables OfficeBrandy Liles: Now facing another felony, on top of two from her earlier case.​A woman charged with meth possession earlier this month is behind bars again after she and her mother were filmed beating a woman they suspected had been working with the police. Acc ... More >>

Bad Mugshot Bonanza: Five Longview Crime All-Stars Netted in Single Drug Bust

An expired inspection sticker led to fresh arrests for five of Longview's most frequently busted miscreants Friday. Police say that 48-year-old Howard "Cowboy" Perkins and 47-year-old Clifton Ardry were stopped while riding in a pickup near the home of 54-year-old, Biblically bearded George Cliffor ... More >>

Texas Tweakers

James "Bull" Durham burned down his mother's house while cooking meth. In Angelina County, the jail is full of guys like him..

Comment of the Day: God Bless The Simpsons

​Here on Eating Our Words, the commenters absolutely make the blog, and our Comment of the Day honors the best of the bunch. Every day, we read you guys and pick the commenter, or commenters, who made us laugh, cry, salivate over something delicious, or think about things in a new way. In re ... More >>

Darren Aronofsky's Meth Ads: Anti-Drug PSAs That Actually Might Work

​Last week, we posted a list of anti-drug commercials that not only didn't stop any children from doing drugs, but potentially encouraged such abusing behavior. The famed PSA one-liner, "I learned it from watching you," probably made more kids of the '80s wish they were rolling doobies with th ... More >>

Gary Robert Watson, Bentley-Driving Alleged Heights-Area Coke Dealer, Goes Down in Target Parking Lot Bust

The Bentley is gone​Up until September 16, Gary Robert Watson was living pretty large. He had the swanky condo in the Sawyer Heights development overlooking the Heights Target. Every day he drove a 2006 Bentley into the garage, and on his thick wrist the giant of a man rocked a $3K Breitling. ... More >>

Clarence Leroy Teel: Cops Raid Hospital Room, Find Well-Stocked Illicit Pharmacy

Some people get happy in different ways​According to court records, it all started on August 14 when a nurse at Methodist Willowbrook hospital noticed that the patient in room 6412 was leaving a few syringes around. That struck her as odd, as the patient in that room, 52-year-old Clarence Lero ... More >>

Gilmore Cox: Lufkin Man Gets 35 Years and 20 Years on Seperate Meth Charges

An unhappy Gilmore Cox​Gilmore Cox had a bad day in court on Wednesday. After pleading guilty last month to charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of transport chemicals with intent to manufacture, Angelina County district court judge Barry Bryan sentenced him to 35 yea ... More >>

Feds Bring Down Hammer on Lufkin Meth Trade

In two distinct actions, federal authorities have indicted 17 East Texans on over 200 counts of crimes related to the crystal methamphetamine trade in and around Lufkin. You just might be hearing this song all over town this week: In the first action, the Lufkin Daily News has reported that a fed ... More >>

"Project Delirium": Big Nationwide Drug Round-Up Results in Texas Arrests

The hammer comes down.​No, "Project Delirium" isn't the latest Anthrax album; It's a nationwide crackdown targeting alleged members of the La Familia Michoacana Drug Cartel. It's been a 20-month operation, and in the latest wave of arrests beginning this month, 221 suspects have been taken in ... More >>

Dennis Hollifield: Guns, Toddlers and Showing Cops Where He Keeps His Meth

Photos Montgomery County Police ReporterDennis Hollifield: Dazed and confused.​Dennis Eugene Hollifield of (naturally) Splendora looks like Robert Plant coming off a wild night, but he shows none of Plant's ability in Led Zeppelin's heyday to explain away the occasional guns-and-drugs episode ... More >>

Robert Keith Logan: Bible-Toting, Cadillac-Driving East Texas Meth Dealer (Allegedly)

Robert Logan: Meth and a Bible.​Robert Keith Logan was one of the more unusual suspects the Titus County drug cops had ever snared in one of their Northeast Texas buy-busts. "Sometimes people don't look the way you think they would look if they're selling dope," Titus County Sheriff Tim Ingra ... More >>

Katy ISD Cop Dennis Olivier: Boss, Someone Took The Heroin, Coke, Meth & Weed You Gave Me

No need to lock your truck or anything.​As a K-9 unit cop for Katy ISD, Dennis Olivier tooled around with a white tackle box full of drugs in his squad car. The department-issued narcotics kit was used to train the dog, so that man and dog could do their part in the war on drugs. But in a cr ... More >>

"Driving While Taking Upskirt Pictures" Lands East Texas Pair in Pokey

Photos Angelina County JailApril Peeples in front of the cameras again.​It sounds like May 17 was a busy day for Angelina County sheriff Kent Henson. While he was at the scene of a meth lab bust, his radio crackled with news of a burglary in progress nearby, so he hopped in his car and sped of ... More >>

Terry Sims: Amazing Mumford Wannabe Fails to Make Meth Disappear

Angelina County JailTerry Sims: ALMOST outwitted the cops​Apparently Terry Michael Sims enjoys his meth and doesn't much care who knows it. Earlier this week, the 33-year-old Tyler man evidently made a spectacle of himself in public, and police in the town of Huntington were called out to inve ... More >>

Brett Favre's Sister Would Do Anything for Meth (MUGSHOT ALERT!)

Yes, Brett Favre's sister is named Brandi​In Season Five of The Sopranos, Tony is dealing with a lot of shit. In addition to the usual set of headaches -- little things like RICO statutes and wondering each day if that would be the day that the New York crew decides to off him -- Tony was d ... More >>

Montgomery County Cops Take Down Motel Meth Lab In New Caney

She's 34...THIRTY-FOUR!​Acting on a tip, Montgomery County Constables took down a "shake and bake" meth lab in a New Caney motel in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Arrested were 34-year-old Kerry Lee Datray, of Cleveland, and 38-year-old Wayne Paul Walters of Lufkin. Each was charged manu ... More >>

Meth Fires Galore In Lufkin

Photos courtesy Angleina County SOGilbert Sayers: Would you rent a room to this guy?​Man, Lufkin's got the crystal methamphetamine blues bad. Just as one high-profile meth lab fire case comes to a close, another one opens... We begin with the adventures of Gilbert Sanders and Charles Euper... ... More >>

CVS: No Longer Available For All Your Meth-Making Needs

CVS: No longer a convenient stop for meth dealers​CVS, the drugstore chain that seems to have an outlet on every Houston intersection that doesn't have a Walgreen's on it, has agreed to pay a whopping $75 million fine to make up for selling a key ingredient used in cooking meth.The chain failed to ... More >>

Brian Bledsoe And Esther Sustaita: Home-Grilled Meat Spells Doom For Bryan Pair's Alleged Motel Drug Spree

Photos courtesy BCSOBBQ at the hotel​Brian Bledsoe and Esther Sustaita had made all the arrangements, and their alleged Tuesday evening drug bender was going well. They had rented a room at the Travel Lodge on Bryan's Texas Avenue, and the pharmaceutical cornucopia they had on hand would have (mil ... More >>

James "Cookie Ray" Anderson: Alleged Copper Thief Accidentally Leads Cops To Home Meth Lab

Photo courtesy San Jacinto County SOThis way to the meth, officers​Connoisseurs of Deep East Texas Redneck misbehavior will love this one. While the actual offenses are pretty run of the mill, this one has a little bit of everything in the way of Piney Woods cliches, from a getaway on a 4-wheeler, ... More >>

Tonight: Son Volt at the Continental Club

No doubt we'll hear this, a highlight from the band's most recent album, 2007's The Search... "Methamphetamine," live at Fort Worth's Main Street Arts Festival, April 2008

Girls Rock!

Summer camp was never this cool

Stephen Hunter

The fifth Bob Lee Swagger novel shoves it all in there

David Handler

Have lunch with the author of The Sour Cherry Surprise

Femme Fatality

Cracker

Thursday, June 15, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

Cranked

Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards

Live in Aught-Three (Compadre Records)

Salton Crackers

A parade of crazies keeps this Sea afloat

Drug Money

Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?