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Limestone County Sheriff’s officials have made two arrests on drug charges and three on theft charges in the past three days.
Chief Investigator Stanley McNatt said Investigators Leslie Ramsey and Johnny Morell went to Piney Chapel Trailer Park Tuesday on a possible lead about a theft. While at the park they saw what appeared to be a drug transaction taking place. They approached a man in a vehicle and, after smelling strong odor of methamphetamine, called Drug Investigator Josh McLaughlin, McNatt said.
Together, the three investigators went to an apartment in the trailer park, which the man in the vehicle — Donald Joseph Key, 47, of 906 Willow Brook Drive in Huntsville — had entered. After obtaining permission to search the premises by the apartment owner, they found some methamphetamine and some drug paraphernalia, and arrested Key, who had been staying at the dwelling, on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, McNatt said.
In another incident Tuesday, a suspicious truck parked on a roadside led to the arrest of a man and the return of a stolen truck.
Deputy Cody Lewter was dispatched to Parker Road regarding a suspicious truck parked on the roadside, McNatt said. A records check revealed the vehicle had been reported stolen from Texas.
After interviewing the woman who had seen the truck, Lewter also learned she had seen an older, white man driving the truck and also entering 12304 Snake Road, Apt. 3. Investigator Jonathan Hinton and Lt. Jay Stinnett joined Lewter at the apartment. There they found Joseph Arthur Johnson, 48, homeless, and verified him as the man driving the truck and the man who entered the apartment. The officers also found the keys to the stolen truck in a bag in Johnson’s possession, McNatt said. He is charged with first-degree receiving stolen property.
“His name had been given to authorities in Texas as a possible suspect in the theft of a truck from a job site,” said McNatt.
In a separate case Monday, a 911 dispatcher received an anonymous call alleging someone was cooking methamphetamine at 28355 Monday Road in Lester, McNatt said.
When Deputies Rhett McNatt and Jeff Kilpatrick arrived at a camper on the property, they noticed what smelled like methamphetamine in the residence and called McLaughlin. Together, the officers contacted the property owner and received permission to search the camper, where they found a meth lab, McNatt said.
The officers arrested the occupant of the camper, Gerald Ray Cook, 46, of 7301 Highway 207 in Anderson, on charges of first-degree manufacturing a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance, he said.
“The matter remains under investigation and another arrest is pending soon,” McNatt said.
In a separate case Monday, Deputy Gil Moore arrested Donald Eric Pipp, 32, of 1211Turner St. in Muskogee, Okla., on a charge of giving a false name to law-enforcement officers and on an outstanding warrant for receiving stolen property.
On Wednesday, in another incident, Investigator Hinton arrested Donnie Goode on a theft of property charge for allegedly stealing a reciprocating saw from a residence on Oakdale Road, McNatt said.
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