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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Tip Leads to Three Arrests, Meth Charges in O'Fallon

Drug Task Force detectives said they smelled the chemical odor of meth as they drove by the home.

Three people were charged Thursday with making and possessing methamphetamine in O’Fallon after authorities received a tip about a meth lab. Charged with making and possessing methamphetamine were: Acting on a tip, St. Charles County Drug Task Force members went to a mobile home July 10 on Thoroughbred Drive in O’Fallon and saw two men leave the house and get in a pickup truck. As detectives drove past the house, they smelled a strong chemical odor from cooking meth, according to a task force report. Detectives arranged to have the truck stopped by St. Charles County deputies while detectives checked out the house. Inside the home, they found Hopkins and a fully functioning meth lab in the kitchen, two grams of meth and meth ingredients. …

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Police: O'Fallon Man Assaults Woman, Rips Out Screen Door, Hits Man

Deputies said the man was extremely drunk during the incident.

An O’Fallon man was arrested after St Charles Sheriff’s Department deputies said he assaulted two people, tore a screen door off a patio door and threw it over the deck. Bradley P. Wright, 25, of the 300 block of Charlottesville Drive in O’Fallon, was charged with two counts of third-degree assault, second-degree property damage and resisting arrest. Deputies said Wright argued with a woman on Saturday in the first block of Pine Cliff Court in Defiance and pushed her across a driveway, causing her to hit her head on the driveway. He then tore off the screen door, heaved it over the deck, and punched a man at the house, according to the report. Wright was allowed to call his brother to pick him up. When sheriff’s deputies arrived, they …

Jim Frain

7:48 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Why do we give such detailed coverage of O'Fallon residents who break the law? And, if the Patch continues with this coverage I hope that there will be even more coverage of the great residents of O'Fallon who are well above the law and doing good things for the city, their church, their family and their organization's of choice. More Good News Please! It's happening around us every day.   more ›

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