{"id":162657,"date":"2012-02-07T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162657"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:26:33","slug":"17-arrested-in-harrisonmarion-county-methamphetamine-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162657","title":{"rendered":"17 Arrested in Texas\/Louisiana Meth Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MARSHALL \u2013 Authorities have arrested 17 northeast Texas residents following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Harrison and Marion counties. Around 7:00 yesterday morning, a combined task force of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies began executing 17 federal arrest warrants for defendants charged in a conspiracy to purchase cold pills containing pseudoephedrine in order to manufacture methamphetamine in and around Karnack and Marshall, Texas, and northwest Louisiana.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, since approximately October 2008, the defendants have been involved in a conspiracy to manufacture over 50 grams of actual methamphetamine in the Karnack area. On February 1, a federal grand jury returned an 839-count Indictment charging 17 people with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Those defendants are individually charged in Counts 2 through 839 with possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

The following defendants have been named in the federal indictment and arrested. They appeared yesterday before U. S. Magistrate Judge Roy D. Payne for an initial appearance.<\/p>\n

David Lynn Sirmans, 55, of Karnack, TX
\nChristine Francis Sirmans, 44, of Karnack, TX
\nPeggy Ann Davis, 39, of Lone Star, TX
\nDebra Perry Robinson, 48, of Karnack, TX
\nWanda Guthrie Apple, 67, of Karnack, TX
\nMindy Gail Tims, 33, of Longview, TX
\nAdrian Demond Noel, 29, of Jefferson, TX
\nGregory Scott Covey, 40, of Karnack, TX
\nTammy Rene Price, 46, of Karnack, TX
\nRonald Dean Wisdom, 64, of Karnack, TX
\nDennis James Perry, 47, of Karnack, TX
\nAnna Lerey Woodall, 22, of Emory, TX
\nTracy Renee Hampton, 44, of Jefferson, TX
\nChelsey Lynn Jones, 24, of Jefferson, TX
\nMarcy Sanders, 39, of Mooringsport, LA
\nShonda Michelle Jones, 33, of Karnack, TX
\nJessica Nicole Bickham, 28, of Marshall, TX<\/p>\n

If convicted of the conspiracy charge, defendants face a minimum of 10 years and up to life in prison. If convicted of the possession charge, defendants face up to 20 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n

The investigation and yesterday’s arrests were led by the Texas Department of Public Safety \u2013 Criminal Investigations Division Agents with assistance from DPS Aircraft, DPS Highway Patrol Troopers, Texas Rangers, U.S. Marshals Service, and members of the U.S. Marshals Joint East Texas Task Force from Harrison County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Longview Police Department, Marshall Police Department, Waskom Police Department, Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Atlanta Police Department, Upshur County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Tyler Police Department, Henderson Police Department, Henderson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARSHALL \u2013 Authorities have arrested 17 northeast Texas residents following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Harrison and Marion counties. Around 7:00 yesterday morning, a combined task force of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies began executing 17 federal arrest warrants for defendants charged in a conspiracy to purchase cold pills containing … Continue reading 17 Arrested in Texas\/Louisiana Meth Probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 00:09:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162657"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163001,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657\/revisions\/163001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}