On May 27 of last year, Lee got a five-year suspended sentence in Lincoln County for biting a state narcotics officer on the arm during a methamphetamine bust the month before. "Basically they got into a fight with him there," said Lincoln County Assistant District Attorney Clayton Niemeyer.
Lee transferred his probation to Jackson County and made it into this summer before admitting to his probation officer, Dale Landers, that he had been using methamphetamine, a violation of his probation. The admission was not the result of a mandatory drug screen, Landers said -- merely an admission.
When Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy Stacy Randolph showed up with another deputy at Lee's address in Duke early Tuesday morning to serve an arrest warrant on Lee for the probation violation, according to an affidavit filed with the District Court, Lee "waived his rights relating himself, Nathan Roberson and Joshua Miller all manufacture methamphetamine giving three different locations where they would cook."
The affidavit states that Lee told the deputies where they would steal the anhydrous ammonia and obtain the ephedrine necessary to manufacture the meth, and that they would sell most of the drug they produced and use the rest.
Lee went on to tell the deputies that the trio had agreed "that Roberson would cover most of the cost of supplies and a place to manufacture, they would cook and Miller would sell for them all."
There was a party going on that night at the Falcon Inn -- with girls and drugs, Lee related.
According to the affidavit, Roberson and Miller were tuned in to the action going on in Duke via a police scanner. When they heard that Lee had been arrested, Roberson broke into Lee's vehicle to try to remove the drugs and a
pistol and leave before police arrived.
Lee, 24, Miller, 23, of Olustee, and Roberson, 21, of Duke, are all charged with unlawful possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute (felony) -- methamphetamine; possession of precursors with intent to manufacture a controlled dangerous substance (felony) -- heet, ephedrine and lithium metal; unlawful use of a police radio (felony); possession of a controlled substance (misdemeanor) -- marijuana; unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor) -- scales, a long black tube containing black residue, small glass tube containing black residue, pipe cleaners.
Lee was hit with an additional felony charge of being in possession of a firearm -- a 25-caliber Tanfoglio Giuseppe pistol found in his 1999 Ford F-150 -- after conviction or during probation.
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