7/7/11 Killbuck man pleads to meth cooking charge

  • By Nick Sabo
  • July 7, 2011
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SUMMARY: Defendant says cooks were for his own habit A Killbuck man charged with cooking meth at a family residence pleaded guilty Thursday July 7 in Holmes County Common Pleas Court. David J. McFadden, 28, 101 Purdy Street, faces up to eight years in prison after pleading to one count of illegal manufacture of methamphetamine. In exchange for his guilty plea, five related charges were dropped and the state will recommend a prison sentence of three to four years. The charge stems from April 13, when Holmes County Sheriff’s deputies were contacted during the course of a domestic dispute between McFadden and his girlfriend. The girlfriend informed deputies that McFadden, who was allegedly having an affair with another woman, was cooking meth. An active cook was found inside a closet in a Buckeye Street mobile home rented by McFadden’s relatives, Prosecuting Attorney Steve Knowling said. A finished cook was discovered at the Purdy Street residence, according Knowling. The cook, inside a two-liter pop bottle, was tested by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification and found to contain liquid methamphetamine. McFadden said he had been using meth for about a year and but did not think of himself as a drug addict until he sobered up in jail. While incarcerated, McFadden injured his hand punching a wall, something he attributed to “the meth coming out of my system”. “It pulled me away from family and the things that mattered most,” McFadden said. “I thought I had it under control...I never could have dreamed I’d look like in the pictures (when arrested). It looked like I was gonna die in six months, if that.” McFadden said he made meth solely for his own use. Knowling said the sheriff’s narcotics unit has no information to indicate McFadden was dealing drugs. The plea agreement states that the court may choose to release McFadden into a residential treatment facility in approximately three years. Rinfret told McFadden he will only consider release if McFadden “does everything you’re supposed to do” in prison or “you’re not getting out.” “Sometime in the future you are going to get out,” Rinfret said. “It’s not going to do us a bit of good if you don’t get help.” Rinfret ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for Aug. 24.


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