There Goes The Neighborhood.

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Well, the bad part anyway. For all you folks in Baton Rouge who asked why I haven't written anything lately, here it is. Most of this happened while I was out of town. I got there just in time to see the armored truck with the gun turret on top leaving Dr. E's house, leaving behind probably 15 cruisers and unmarked cars and SUV's and lots of police in tactical gear. I spoke about Dr. E and some of his shenanigans at the Symposium in Baton Rouge a few days ago. He used to be a fun loving party guy, expert fisherman, crack shot, and superb gardener. All that went out the window back in 2008 when he discovered the wonders of crack cocaine and crystal meth and decided to get into the pharmaceutical business. It didn't end well then or now. He got busted in October 2009 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He served five and went back for four more months on a parole violation in August of last year. He still didn't learn his lesson.

Dr. E married another parolee last year and they had a baby girl in January. DHS came and got the baby about a month ago because both of them rusted out the pee cup. All they had to do was test negative a few times and they get their baby back. They flunked the test two more times after the baby was taken. In the meantime there was a steady stream of cars and trucks with bad mufflers in and out of Dr. E's yard 24/7. I knew what was going on and so did everybody else. I could see them at night going back and forth to the stashes with flashlights. I kept my guns loaded and my friends informed even though I didn't have to. Dr. E would brag to anyone, friend or stranger, about what he was doing and how he was doing it. I think the meth was eating up his brain.

I knew the bust was coming, I just didn't know when. Thursday night it came to a head. A deputy was driving past Dr. E's house when he was flagged down. One of the creatures over there told the deputy a man had just been beaten with a hammer. The deputy got out of the cruiser and found the victim unconscious and called for an ambulance and a back-up. The deputy was driving a SUV with a police dog in the back. While dealing with the victim "Breezy" jumped into the running cruiser and took off. Breezy is the guy who hit the victim with the hammer. He hit him because he knew he was carrying a Glock 9 MM and he wanted a gun. Breezy had been acting strange (methed out) for a few days and had asked several people for a gun because he thought somebody was after him. Nobody gave him a gun so he hits the guy twice with a hammer and takes the Glock 43.

Breezy gets on Hwy 49 and heads north to Hattiesburg. A few miles later he is joined by two SO units and a State Trooper. They light him up (turn on lights and siren) and he turns on the lights and siren in the cruiser and takes off. He is chased several miles and hits several stop sticks resulting in two flat tires. He is talking to his pursuers on the radio telling them they won't take him alive and asks God to help him. He drives a few more miles and wrecks. Two deputies and a trooper approaches the wrecked cruiser when they hear a shot. The trooper fires a shot not hitting Breezy. The officers find Breezey with an apparent self inflicted wound in his head. Breezy goes to ICU and is put on life support and the original hammer victim winds up close by. The dog was OK. That was Thursday night.

I'm on the way home Friday when a neighbor calls me and tells me both sides of Dr. E's house is blocked off on my road and she can hear doors going down and "explosions." I found out later the explosions were flashbangs. I get home a few minutes later as the armored truck is leaving. It was an impressive looking vehicle and painted a dark gray with no markings whatsoever. I can see Dr. E's house from my carport so I pull up a chair and pop open a beer. In a few minutes one of the officers over there called me and wants to know where the property lines are. I finish the beer and ride over on the 4 wheeler and show them. I just had all of it surveyed and knew where everything was. While there I could see the former occupants of Dr.E's house sitting handcuffed behind their backs out in the yard. I noticed one officer coming out with a scoped rifle and another with several large black plastic bags loaded with "stuff." They were hot and thirsty so I went back to the house and brought them some ice water and iced tea. I didn't ask any questions at the time about what they had found but learned later it was 15 pounds of marijuana and "several" pounds of powdered meth.

Breezy used to be a good kid. My son went to school with him. He had an interest in antiques and several years ago he came to my home and I showed him some of my stuff and he some of his. Sometime after that he got hooked on the poison. Breezy died about 3:00p.m. today. Dr. E is locked up and the Forrest County Jail and can be seen on their website. His name is Samuel Easterling and there is also a list of his new charges. I am guessing they'll probably send him back to do the original 20 years but I've been wrong before. He might get some time. Breezy is Joshua Breazeale. Info on him can be found on WDAM .com. It sure is quiet out there tonight. Sometimes you just can't get away from it.
 
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METH is strange animal Brother Charlie.
Over the years I've represented a LOT of people in the drug business. Marijuana guys...they might smoke a little, but they take care of business. Cocaine guys....they don't touch their own product.
METH.....crazy. Client calls me up at 3 a.m. to tell me Police shooting ray-guns through his house. Calls me several hours later to apologize. I accept apology and bill him $300. He pays. I've seen videos of them stealing Ammonia from commercial places and actually PASS OUT from the fumes, lay on ground, wake back up (Ammonia lighter than oxygen) and go back to stealing it. I've seen it break some otherwise, good people.
 
Wow, that is just sad the way some folks let drugs ruin their lives. In my young and dumb days I did a little bit of stuff, but never any meth (I think they called it crank back then), and never let any of that control my life. And that also includes alcohol too, which is as bad a drug as far as abuse goes as just about any other.

I'm glad to hear you made it safely through all this stuff.
 
They used to call crack "Devils rock" .. no sir, its meth.
it's not the instant crazy of PCP or the synthetic MJ. No its an insidious and profound madness.
Its kind of a shame that it doesn't kill faster than it does.
I've never seen a before and after recovery where the user returned to normal. They don't seem to recover. best I've seen was a somewhat passable shifty twit you still couldn't trust.
 
I believe that meth is the most dangerous drug that is commonly abused. It addicts users faster, with fewer doses, than just about anything and drives some really crazy, violent behavior. You find many people try it for what sound like legitimate reasons, needing a little more energy for work, to try to lose a little weight for the husband/boyfriend, and it bites them right in the ***. Few drug addictions are harder to beat than meth.
 
When he got busted back in 09 when the wind was right I could smell the meth chemicals cooking at my house even though he would burn pine straw to try and mask the smell. He was selling coke then also. He was getting his coke from a guy down the road. They got busted on the same day and the guy down the road got out about six months after Dr. E. By then they had Mexican meth connections. The ingredients are a little harder to get now for the home cooked stuff and besides that it's not as strong as the Mexican stuff. All of it still makes you a major junkie with an aptitude deficiency. I retired as a LEO three years ago. One of my jobs was to go with DHS to snatch the kids. Most meth heads never tried to get them back and they were sent to relatives or adopted to complete strangers. Sad.
 
Drug, or any substance addiction, is a strange animal. IMO, meth (aka; devil dope) is maybe the worse as to controlling/ruining lives and is very widespread. I doubt there are very many families that have at least one member that's not affected, either directly or indirectly.
 
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There is a bright side to all this. We're the winners because we've got Charlie back. He used to post his war stories all the time. And for Charlie, maybe he can buy the adjoining property on the cheap. He'd become the plantation owner of Brooklyn!
 
No one starts out wanting to be a meth head or a crack whore. They just end up there. It has to be a living hell. You can't help those that do not want helped. All that the rest of us can do is shake our heads and pray for society. God gave us free will. It is amazing what some do with it. I used to work as a respiratory therapist. Sometimes I would be in the maternity ward and I would look at the babies and wonder what would happen to them. Unfortunately, they do not all start out equally. Some just don't have a chance. God save us from ourselves.
 
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After that story which I have heard the likes around here. Maybe we can get Charlie and Mike Conti hooked up together and the maybe finally we can get that book about Charlies career done. Maybe he needs a little retirement income. I will put my name in for the book.

Great to have you back Charlie
 
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