Life in "Redville"

If you've followed this blog for more than a week, you are familiar with my "Life in 'Progress' City" series.

Just to be fair; let it be known that life in "Redville" isn't perfect. While we lack for murders, home invasions, horrible schools, unemployment, high taxes, condemned houses, we do have our share of meth dealers.

Case in point, meet Joseph Wiggins.

A Deerfield Township man, who was the focus of Warren County's first meth lab bust in 2000, will now go to prison for 16 years after getting caught doing the same thing in March.

A jury convicted Joseph Wiggins, 44, of 17 charges involving the raid on his rented Davis Road property, where police found 17 guns, a meth lab in a shed, and a variety of other drugs -- incuding marijuana and prescription drugs -- they say he was selling.

In Warren County Common Pleas Court today, Wiggins told Judge Neal Bronson he was trying to give up drugs after becoming a first-time father last year.

Wiggins was holding the 8-month-old girl when county drug agents bought meth from him and arrested him, Warren County Assistant Prosecutor Derek Faulkner said.

Yeah, a regular father of the year.

Maybe Gary over at Right Runner can teach him how to can pickles.

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