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popping 20 Sudafed’s,” he said. “They go and manufacture the meth.”
One of Obenshain’s bills would make it a felony to possess more than two of what he called precursor chemicals for meth production. That measure breezed through the Senate Courts of Justice Committee uncontested.
However, Obenshain’s bill to make the punishment for meth offenses equal to the punishment for cocaine offenses wasn’t as successful.
Currently, he said, people who are caught moving cocaine get significantly staffer sentences than people making meth.
“I see no distinction between the two,” Obenshain said.
But the Courts of Justice Committee did. Last week, it voted 4-8 against Obenshain’s bill.
Sheriff Carter said stronger state laws would help in cases such as the Landry investigation.
He said the task forced charged Maurice Landry and Kimberly Carter on the spot. They1 ^andry with charges of conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance and possession of a firearm while in possession of a controlled substance. Kimberly Carter faced charges of conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine.
The state charges were dropped while federal prosecutors pursued the case, Sheriff Carter said.
Landiy was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to conspiracy to manufacture, dis
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