Crime & Safety

Pacific Man Charged With Intent to Make Meth

Police said the man intended to sell cold medication to meth cook.

A man faces criminal charges for buying cold medicine with pseudoephedrine intending to sell it to a methamphetamine cook.

Joseph D. Weatherby, 19, of Pacific, was charged Aug. 7 with possessing a precursor drug with intent to make meth.

said Weatherby had the pseudoephedrine in his car Feb. 16 at 1001 Bowles Ave. in . According to the police report, Weatherby told police he intended to sell the drug knowing it would be used to make meth.

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Bond was set at $5,000.

 

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