Meth found outside Casey’s

By ERIC MEYER

Staff writer

A plastic bag discovered around noon Aug. 12 on the ground in the Casey’s General Store parking lot in Marion contained what police suspect were illegal drugs.

Police Chief Aaron Slater said the bag contained a white, crystallized substance that his training led him to believe was methamphetamine.

Police arrived roughly five minutes after the bag was discovered but were unable to determine who owned it, Slater said.

The contents weighed 1.5 grams. If it was meth, that’s would have been enough for about seven doses of the highly addictive neurostimulant, according to federal drug enforcement reports.

Each dose, according to those reports, is capable of producing a 36-hour “high.”

Crystal meth is the most expensive form of the drug. It tends to be the purest and is more costly and dangerous to produce.

According to federal estimates, crystal meth typically sells for $20 to $40 a gram.

“We didn’t end up testing the substance due to there being no suspect,” Slater said. “We didn’t want to waste a test kit as they can be expensive.

“I was able to identify the substance due to my training and experience in dealing with the substance.”

The substance was disposed of at the Marion police station, Slater said.