Drug agents set up sting at supercenter | News

CHICKASHA, Okla.— There’s a lot of traffic coming and going from the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Chickasha. So much so that investigators from several agencies set up a sting operation to catch some illegal traffic.

Mark Woodward with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics said, “It literally looks like a clown car where six people will go into the store and each buy one box of Pseudopehed; go outside, get back in the car, go across the street to another pharmacy. All six of them go into the store and buy their one box and they do this all day long.”

All that work to gather up enough of the drug to make meth.

In Oklahoma, one person can buy 3.2 grams of Pseudoephed in one day and up to 9 grams in a month.

Authorities say meth cooks are now recruiting people to get the needed ingredients for them.

In just over a day, seven people were taken into custody after leaving the store.

Most of the people involved in these stings admit they were buying the drug to make meth.

Woodward said, “That’s ultimately what we want to do, is take the source out.”

Officials are going after suspicious customers who they claim are blocked from making a purchase and are purchasing from others.

Woodward said, “These are not people with allergies; these are meth addicts who need some Pseudoephedrine somebody can go cook it up for them.”

A similar sting operation was held in Tulsa earlier this year and netted hundreds of arrests.