{"id":41711,"date":"2026-06-16T23:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/41711\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:27:27","slug":"man-caught-in-historic-meth-seizure-in-new-madrid-county-mo-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/41711\/","title":{"rendered":"Man caught in historic meth seizure in New Madrid County, Mo. sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; A meth dealer in southeast Missouri will spend the next decade in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">U.S. District Judge John A. Ross sentenced 55-year-old Craig M. Perkins of Howardville on Tuesday, June 16, after pleading guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine back in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Perkins admitted that during a court-approved search of his home in New Madrid County on May 21, 2025, investigators found around 4.2 lbs. of meth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2025\/05\/22\/meth-seizure-could-be-one-largest-new-madrid-county-history-sheriff-says\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2025\/05\/22\/meth-seizure-could-be-one-largest-new-madrid-county-history-sheriff-says\/\">The New Madrid County Sheriff\u2019s Office said this seizure may be one of the largest in the county\u2019s history<\/a>, with that amount of meth being worth about $40,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They also located half an ounce of meth and 36 rounds of ammunition in a vehicle in the driveway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Department of Justice, Perkins\u2019 phone also contained text messages indicative of drug trafficking and photos of himself displaying large stacks of cash, as well as guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The DOJ said he has been a drug dealer in New Madrid County since at least 2002, and supplied dealers who sold meth to customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force and the Missouri State Highway Patrol investigated the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Shelton prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; A meth dealer in southeast Missouri will spend the next decade in prison.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19379,19381,102,19382,991,15311,19377,19378,1795,82,19376,7424,19374,273,4375,19375,19380],"class_list":["post-41711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-channel-12","tag-craig-m-perkins","tag-crime","tag-dealer","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-historic","tag-howardville","tag-kfvs","tag-local","tag-madrid","tag-meth","tag-missouri","tag-new-madrid-county","tag-news","tag-seizure","tag-sentencing","tag-wsil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}