Background for 2006 – I keep every scrap of paper I get that explains meth labs to me. I have got to get up to “speed” (pun intended) on how the stuff is made, why it explodes, what it is, how it affects people. I need to understand what I am up against. I am very naïve about meth. I am also re-thinking who to call and give reports to about the meth lab trash and criminal activity. I am learning. Most of all I am learning not to trust.

Situation #10 – We find more meth lab trash in the creek on February 2nd and report it to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (Incident # 71756). The TCEQ refers the complaint to Parker County Emergency Management Department and Ms. Janice Stroud who in turn gives the case to Mr. Wortham. This is a perfect example of the lackadaisical manner in which meth lab trash is handled by law enforcement. They spent months passing it off to someone else. The Dallas EPA guy claims it is the duty of all peace officers to investigate hazardous waste and to make arrests. Call him back and he will make them do their jobs per some law. (Yeah, right buddy!)

We get the Cross Timbers Narcotics Task Force to come out on the 15th. Cy & Kennedy tell me the popping noises means meth is still “cooking” and subject to exploding. Meth lab trash is hazardous waste and must be disposed of properly. Cy & Kennedy just put a piece of old carpet over the meth lab trash (still cooking) and throw the latex gloves they wore on top of the carpet. They left it all right there on the creek bank. They ignored the two 55 gallon drums of lab trash. That trash kills wildlife.

Finally in late March Wortham, Cross Timbers, the Fire Department, all the trainees, plus a few jail inmates came out to remove the lab trash waste. It was a chaotic zoo of people. The drums are almost empty, as the creek has been washing the contents down river. Some officers really wanted to investigate. They imagined doing fingerprints, and other fancy forensics as their real-life training. What great fun they were going to have. And then…… the Head DA showed up and just burst their balloon. The DA opined that I could have put it all there and called because no law enforcement official saw me pull it from the creek. The DA office would do its usual nothing. I said that before a few times, haven’t I? What a pattern is emerging, the head DA is in on the conspiracy it seems.

Situation #11 - But, wait! It gets stranger than a menagerie of trainees. The meth monster has totally taken over the neighborhood. On March 21st the residents of Brazos Rock Road witness a very obese female Parker County Sheriff deputy drive a marked patrol car to one of the meth labs near the point and make a pick-up of drugs. The neighborhood discussed this incident for days. We had the best time gossiping and laughing about how the sheriff was so bold now as to send in deputies to get the meth when no other “mule” (delivery boy) was available. No one in the neighborhood thought that she was innocent.

That same evening Roger Salter comes by us throwing more dirt than usual with his truck. He is emboldened by the sheriff earlier and is extra vicious toward us. Lots of shots are heard coming from the Salter and the Menix places. We easily hear them shouting at Roger that it is his fault because “he always has to be the bully”. The sad part is, after all the shouting and shooting, we found a dead dog dumped on White Boy Beach. It turned out to be the dog of 12-year-old John Hall’s son. Robert and the boy’s mother buried the dog amidst the poor child’s tears. Robert performed the funeral and prayed over the dog and boy. I felt really bad. It just isn’t right for this boy to suffer because of those idiots and crooks that could not care less.

Situation #12 – On March 30, 2006 we met with Environmental Agent Wortham. We ask him to give us the proper procedure for reporting and handling the hazardous trash from the meth lab. We provided Wortham with pages of evidence. Wortham promises to get back with us after he has a procedure ready. On April 19th more bags of meth lab trash appeared. We notified Wortham and he said he would come in the morning to get the trash. Wortham never showed up. (WOW, a Parker County Official failing to keep his word!) The day after that it rained and washed those bags of hazardous waste into the Brazos River. Wortham never established the procedure for reporting and collecting meth lab waste. The DA says we can’t touch hazardous meth trash. Yet, law enforcement refuses to remove it and investigate. Isn’t that “Catch 22”? When law enforcement refuses to do anything, criminals rule.

Questions – Why isn’t law enforcement happy to have such an abundance of evidence? Why don’t they comb it over looking for fingerprints and things to lead them to the guilty? Why do they preach about wanting to prosecute drug dealers, yet they never investigate a bloody thing? Why do they let crimes with witnesses and undeniable evidence go unprosecuted and unquestioned? I just have to ask why? Wouldn’t you? It is only reasonable to question the unreasonable.