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Newsbrief:
Cop
Kills
Cop
in
Methamphetamine
Raid
Gone
Awry
12/12/03
Meth prohibition took another
law enforcement officer's life in Huntsville, Tennessee, on November 27.
Scott County Deputy Sheriff Hubert "John John" Yancey died after being
shot by another raider, Scott County Sheriff's Department Drug Officer
Marty Carson, the son of Scott County Sheriff Jim Carson, as the pair entered
a mobile home near Oneida to check on a suspected methamphetamine lab.
According to District Attorney
Paul Phillips, Carson entered the trailer first after obtaining permission
from a resident and made his way toward a back bedroom where he thought
the meth was being cooked. Hearing a noise from the bedroom that
sounded like a shotgun loading, Carson hid in the bathroom. Fearing
an armed suspect was advancing, Carson shot when he saw a figure coming
down the hall.
"Tragically, it was Sgt.
Yancey who had come to assist him," Phillips said told the Tennessean newspaper.
"We have lost a wonderful public servant," Phillips said of Yancey, and
Carson "has lost his partner and his best friend. He is completely
devastated by this tragedy and needs the prayers of this community."
Carson had been distracted
by the screams of a woman in the trailer and blinded by the glare of police
headlights shining on the scene, Phillips added. Two men and a woman
were arrested and charged with three counts each of meth manufacture.
No weapons were found. And the police habit of treating each drug
bust as an adrenaline-fueled potential firefight just cost them another
one of their own.
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Issue #315, 12/12/03
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