CRYSTAL METH ARRESTS ON THE RISE 11-15-2009

CRYSTAL METH ARRESTS ARE ON THE RISE IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY.  THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED SATURDAY NIGHT IN CONNECTION WITH A METH LAB FOUND ON AUGUSTA STREET IN INDIANOLA.  ARRESTED WERE 19-YEAR-OLD MANUEL HARRIS JUNIOR, 44-YEAR-OLD ROBERT SIMPSON AND 25-YEAR-OLD DONALD STEED.  THEY HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CRYSTAL METH, CONSPIRACY TO POSSESS CRYSTAL METH AND MANUFACTURING CRYSTAL METH.  ALL THREE MEN ARE BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND AT THE SUNFLOWER COUNTY JAIL AND FACE AN INITIAL APPEARANCE THIS WEEK. THE MISSISSIPPI BUREAU OF NACTORICS ASSISTED IN THIS INVESTIGATION. THERE ARRESTS COMES ON THE HEELS OF TWO MORE METH ARRESTS EARLIER THIS WEEK.  ON THURSDAY NIGHT, SUNFLOWER COUNTY DEPUTIES ARRESTED 23-YEAR-OLD JACKIE DARBY OF INDIANOLA AND 41-YEAR-OLD ROBERT JEFCOAT OF DREW ON CRYSTAL METH CHARGES. SUNFLOWER COUNTY SHERIFF JAMES HAYWOOD TELLS ABC SIX, THESE FIVE ARRESTS BRINGS TO A TOTAL OF 12 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN THE LAST SIX WEEKS ON CRYSTAL METH CHARGES.