Abita meth maker gets life | New Orleans Times-Picayune

[Ediacara]

Abita meth maker gets life
Lab one of largest in the Southeast

Saturday February 21, 2004

By Meghan Gordon
St. Tammany bureau

The ringleader of an Abita Springs area drug house that churned out $10,000 worth of methamphetamine a week was sentenced to life in prison Thursday as a repeat offender.

Dale Edward McGarity, 44, was convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine and simple possession of narcotics by a jury on Oct. 16. He was sentenced Thursday by state Judge William "Rusty" Knight.

McGarity and three housemates were arrested Jan. 29, 2001, after officials from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration staked out their mobile home at 73265 Eagle St. for two months.

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[chasqui]

1. Meth maker gets life, Janklow gets 100 days.

You can get away with murder, these days...

[pscot]

2. Meth is murder

Life sounds about right.

[eagler]

3. Agree big time

I work with meth addicts every day- They need compassion but makers and dealers are "murdering people" and need to be removed for a very long time.

[eagler]

4. Agree big time

I work with meth addicts every day- They need compassion but makers and dealers are "murdering people" and need to be removed for a very long time.

[eagler]

5. Agree big time

I work with meth addicts every day- They need compassion but makers and dealers are "murdering people" and need to be removed for a very long time.

[eagler]

6. Agree big time

I work with meth addicts every day- They need compassion but makers and dealers are "murdering people" and need to be removed for a very long time.

[amazona]

7. I doubt this guy was manufacturing anything like this

I'm sorry but the amount of activity of this nature in this area is so low as to be negligible. It has happened before that St. Tammany Parish law enforcement have invented wild tales to get whatever they get -- extra funding, attention, and drama, I suppose. Where you have meth, you have crime.

In Abita Springs, the big crime is the Police Chief selling badges so that you can drive toll-free across the causeway.

I would need to be convinced that any drugs at all were being manufactured, much less $10,000 a week.

I remember a few years back when they arrested a big-time LSD manufacturer in Madisonville, turned out after much trouble and expense and heartache that he was under license to develop some specialized fertilizer for a nursery. There was no LSD and never was, much less a lab. The entire story was invented!!! And I'll never forget the poor woman convicted of murder, because her child died of SIDS -- it took two years to get that turned around.



No offense, but law enforcement simply doesn't have anything to do around here and their imagination maybe goes into overdrive.

[dfong63]

8. the guy had 3 priors in CA...

I would need to be convinced that any drugs at all were being manufactured, much less $10,000 a week.

according to the article, the guy had 3 prior drug convictions in CA.