Ozarks_1 said:
I just went through something similar when I bought our new place a couple months ago:
The folks who had the place lost it because they didn't keep up land payments. They took to stealing, illegally cutting timber and transporting it across state lines, and other things. They were still living on the place (illegally) until about ten days before I bought it ... and that's when they got arrested.
The Drug Task Force guys took almost a Jeep Cherokee load of evidence - thankfully, not meth - and told us it looked like a major marijuana growing operation had been planned.
It turns out I signed the papers three days before law enforcement wanted to search the place. Needless to say, I had NO problem with that!
Here's what REALLY funny:
One of the folks who was arrested called me on the phone and "wanted to get her stuff" out of the storage building on the property. I said "Sure" ... and when she showed up, county deputies arrested her on a half-dozen more charges.
smart work on your part, this is increasingly common, i currently am in missouri , and missouri is one of the top states for meth labs, not more than a day goes by before you hear about this lab or that getting busted, and yes, because of liquid nitrogens acessability , they are more common out in the country,
i remember when i was up in ND they had had all the liquid fertilizers tanks refitted with these expensive locks, to stop thieves from stealing it for making meth , well, sure enough , the meth heads just broke the locks off, and thereby destroyed the valves on the tanks, in essence casing even more damage to the tanks , and more headaches to the fertilizer co.
in fact one co, before i left state had erected a large lelectric and barbed wire fence, and hires a security co. that had attack dogs to patrol thier storage area ...... sad what people will go through to make illegal drugs, because they are unhappy with life , or dont know how to find thier own happiness without chemical enhancement .....
just my musings ...
Beth