10-yr-old girl's murder related to methamphetamines - (Crothersville, IN)

[bloom]

"A 10-year-old Crothersville girl may have become the latest victim of Jackson County’s methamphetamine trade.

Charles “Chuckie” James Hickman, 20, of 217 N. Armstrong St., Crothersville, made his initial appearance in Jackson Circuit Court Friday on murder and criminal confinement charges in the drowning death of Katlyn “Katie” Collman.

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During further interviews, Hickman confessed to being involved in the events leading to Collman’s death, Kouns wrote in his affidavit. Hickman told police Collman had seen residents of an apartment in the Penn Villa Apartments, just west of the Dollar General Store, producing and/or using methamphetamine.

Hickman said the people spotted by Collman were afraid she might tell someone what she had seen and decided to scare her with the hope she would remain silent. The affidavit does not specify the link between those who apparently grabbed Collman and Hickman. Hickman said Collman was brought to his residence a short time later in a white Ford F-150 pickup, which had been borrowed from O’Sullivan. Hickman said a plan was then put together to take Collman to Cypress Lake in an effort to intimidate her, according to the affidavit."

http://www.tribtown.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=186&ArticleID=12779

[hippiechick]

1. That is so sick.

That poor girl, probably terrified out of her wits by those jackass stoners. I feel for her family.



:hi: Bloom !

[AwakeAtLast]

2. I heard that on the news this morning

I am originally from Southern Illinois, which has the same problems with meth. This is one of the saddest stories involving meth that I have read about in a long time. :cry:

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. Steroids dammit!

Get with the program! It's rouge athletes that are the real problem!

Got crank? I think the late Gary Web nailed the issue. Like acid splashed on the fabric of democracy, this meth "problem" ain't no accident.

[bloom]

4. Are you saying

that meth isn't a problem?

Or that the government created it?

I'm not familiar with the argument you seem to be espousing.

[Syncronaut Seven]

5. Im'a sayin

that The US has been complicit for a long time. It's only local LEO's who are concerned with meth. The feds like it just fine, keeps the rifraf shooting at each other, not them.

Compare and contrast federal meth eradication efforts to those of marijuana. Maybe you can explain the disparity to me.