Meth Buyer Interrupts Police Drug Raid, Asks Officer: "Can You Hook Me Up?"

[DeSwiss]

Man Asks Officer Wearing Badge for Meth

Aug 17, 8:41 PM EDT

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- A man hoping to score some meth asked the wrong person for the drug. The Eugene police vice narcotics unit had searched an apartment on Monday night and were questioning the tenant when a man came by and asked to buy drugs, Sgt. Jerry Webber said. As detectives stood around with their badges hanging from their necks and latex gloves on their hands, the man asked the tenant, "Can you hook me up?" Webber said.

The tenant was seated on the couch with handcuffs around his wrists. A detective was writing him a citation. The tenant said, "I don't think I can help you," Webber recalled, but the visitor persisted. He then allegedly turned to a detective and asked him for meth. The detective told the visitor, James Wilkinson, 34, of Eugene, he was under arrest for attempted possession of methamphetamine. Wilkinson tried to run, but officers grabbed him, Webber said. They found a small amount of marijuana in his possession, Webber said.

Officers cited the tenant, Gary Puckett, 58, for possessing meth and for endangering the welfare of a 15-year-old girl who was in the apartment. They also arrested a man who walked into the apartment carrying seven baggies of meth, Webber said. A fourth man showed up at the apartment carrying an illegal butterfly knife, Webber said. He told police he had come to tell Puckett not to sell drugs to his girlfriend. He left with a citation for carrying a concealed weapon.

After that, police stopped answering the door, Webber said.

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*** - It would seem that the police have it made in Eugene, OR. They don't have to chase down their criminals, because the criminals just walk right in and arrest themselves....

- I couldn't go to bed w/o posting this first. Nite all!!!

[Nostradammit]

1. Heard my neighbors talking about this guy

the other day. They were lamenting how stupid their friend had been and what he did and here I am reading about it on DU!

Wow. If you knew my neighbors, you would not be at all surprised to learn that one of their friends had done something that dumb.

[Laughing Mirror]

5. Well he was temporarily operating out of another dimension

one in which uniforms and badges, handcuffs and guns were not important. He must have been high as a kite, and what was important, the only thing that mattered, was getting higher.

[hobbit709]

7. I've been so fried that I had to look at my ID

to remember who I was but I've never done anything that STOOPID.

[Subdivisions]

9. Well that's just...

[Mojambo]

2. Gary Puckett, a 15 year old girl, and a shitload of Meth...

I had no idea "Young Girl" was such a controversial song!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. "This Girl Is A Woman Now"?

Sick, but sadly true........

[Adsos Letter]

4. Worst.Drug.Ever.

...Period.

:(

[Spinzonner]

6. Still, you have to admire his dedication to the task

:sarcasm:

[Subdivisions]

10. The determination in this guy! n/t

[fed-up]

8. never heard of this charge before-"under arrest for attempted possession of methamphetamine" nt

[undeterred]

11. This is your brain on meth.

:hi: