SHERIFF NABBED IN MISSOURI METH CRACKDOWN

DEALER?

THERE'S a new sheriff in town - or at least there will have to be - because this one's been busted for dealing crystal meth.
Tommy Adams, lawman for Carter County, MO, allegedly snorted lines of the deadly drug before handing a batch of it to an informant, according to court documents.
He has been charged with Meth distribution and is being held on $250,000 bond. No state has been hit harder by the meth epidemic than Missouri, which led the nation in meth lab busts every year for a decade before Tennessee took over the top spot in 2010, putting the state down to second.
But Carter County had just five Meth lab busts in Adams' two years as sheriff. He is the first law enforcement officer to be arrested in connection with the drug. 
Richard Stephens, who was a Van Buren officer before being appointed as temporary sheriff until a special election can be held this summer, said he had concerns about Adams.
He added: "I had a suspicion that things weren't being handled effectively and professionally. He would not elaborate, citing ongoing state and federal investigations."
Adams is now being held in Cape Girardeau County jail, pending trial.