Lake Brownwood State Park Drug Bust & New Brownwood City Manager

Thursday April 21, 2005
News - Brownwood Bulletin
Federal charges filed in online drug operation
By Steve Nash -- Brownwood Bulletin
 Brown County Sheriff's investigator Billy Arp unsnapped his holster, placed his hand on the butt of his .45 caliber Springfield Arms pistol and approached the driver's side of a Dodge Pickup Tuesday at Lake Brownwood State Park.
source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2005/04/21/news/news01.txt
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From India to Brownwood to all places in between !
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Indians accused of running net-based drug ring in US

Washington, Aug. 21 (PTI): At least three Indians, including two in the US, have been arrested as the American Drug Enforcement Administration busted an Internet drug ring and nabbed 20 people across continents, US officials said.
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In the US arrests occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ft. Lauderdale and Sarasota, Florida; Abilene and Tyler, Texas; New York, NY; Greenville, SC; and Rochester, New York. Internationally, arrests were made in San Jose, Costa Rica; New Delhi, Agra, and Mumbai.
source: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200504212164.htm
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Feds Arrest 20 in Internet Drug Bust
Posted April 20, 2005 5:45PM

Among the organizations targeted was a Philadelphia-based Internet pharmacy that allegedly smuggled prescription painkillers, steroids and amphetamines into the United States from India, Germany, Hungary and elsewhere, repackaged them and sold them throughout the world.
Twenty people in the United States and abroad were arrested on charges they ran Internet pharmacies that illegally shipped narcotics, steroids and amphetamines to teenagers and other buyers around the world, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
The arrests were the result of a yearlong investigation by six federal agencies of online pharmacies that often operate in the shadows of the Internet, with no fixed address and no way to track where they are located, Drug Enforcement Administrator Karen Tandy said.
The drugs were shipped to buyers with little or no effort to verify ages or medical need, allowing teenagers or drug abusers easy access to addictive and dangerous drugs, officials said.
Tandy and officials from the FBI, Customs, the Internal Revenue Service, Food and Drug Administration and the Postal Service were to formally announce details of Operation Cyber Chase at a news conference Wednesday.
source: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=33235
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News - Brownwood Bulletin
Kevin Carruth chosen as city manager
By Steve Nash -- Brownwood Bulletin

 Kevin Carruth of Hillsboro will be the new city manager in Brownwood, city council members decided Wednesday night.
Council members voted 4-1 after a nearly 5 1/2-hour session to offer the job to Carruth, 39, who has been city manager in Hillsboro since October 2000. Council member Charles Lockwood, who favored offering the job to Brownwood City Attorney Pat Chesser, cast the "no" vote, council members Dave Fair and Ed McMillian said this morning.
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"All three were top shelf," Fair said.

"It's a new era for Brownwood. It's a new generation. We're going to have ... a young, progressive city manager with a great temperament and loads of experience.

"He's going to be inheriting a family that is not dysfunctional ... a city that does not have major spots, blemishes or wrinkles. He'll do the touchup paint and the trim and things like that, but he's not inheriting an albatross."

source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2005/04/21/news/news02.txt