Young sisters turn in father after finding meth
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Police in south-central Idaho say two sisters both under 15 turned in their father after conducting their own investigation and determining he was using methamphetamine.
Police tell The Times-News the girls were familiar with parental drug abuse after their mother became addicted to meth and the girls ended up in the custody of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Police describe the girls as very upset earlier this month when reporting they saw illegal narcotics in their father's shop.
Police obtained a warrant and during a search found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
The father was arrested on suspicion of two misdemeanor counts of injury to a child as well felony and misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance.
Police tell The Times-News the girls were familiar with parental drug abuse after their mother became addicted to meth and the girls ended up in the custody of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Police describe the girls as very upset earlier this month when reporting they saw illegal narcotics in their father's shop.
Police obtained a warrant and during a search found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
The father was arrested on suspicion of two misdemeanor counts of injury to a child as well felony and misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance.
Police Women of Twin Falls County! Â Nice job, girls - it must have been hard but it was the right thing to do.
Those sisters are gonna be cops! They rock!!!
Way to go girls!
I don't see where they were placed after their father's arrest, but I hope it's not back with him in a few weeks.
Its wrong to hope/wish for one to not get their child(s), they are human and they know what kind of mistake they made. Â Why don't you wish/hope for him to be able to get help so the girls have a dad. If he has them back in a few weeks, that just means that this story got blown up from what really happen. That state NEVER gives back kids.Â
Good for those girls! Their lives have already been impacted by their mother's idiocy. Â Somehow the word has to get out that meth is NOT a recreational drug. It's not something you can do on a saturday, when your friends have some. It destroys lives.. not just yours, but every single person you love. You start with meth, and soon you'll be stealing and hurting your family and friends. You'll lose your home, your job, your teeth, and your hair. Then.. mostly like your freedom or your life. It's not worth it. Â There are new campaigns in schools and in the media, that say "Meth: Not even once." Â And they have these horrific true stories from teens and young people who started using meth recreationally, and they talk in their own voice about chewing gum and pieces of their teeth are coming out (these are 16 olds,) and they're talking about clumps of hair coming out in their hands, and sores all over their faces. Â Plus the stories of how they stole from their siblings and grandparents, and ended up physically hurting people, and turning tricks.Â
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If people want to smoke pot, or drink, whatever.. that's your choice to medicate yourself to escape your reality (as long as you don't drive.) Â BUT.. meth? It makes you a monster, with no conscience. None. The drug itself kills the part of your brain that controls compunction, and the fall from the high is so horrific that you will do anything to get more. Â You need to communicate this with your kids, with your teens, and with everyone you know. Â Don't try it. Not even once.Â
 @DT I absolutely agree with everything you said about meth. My ex bro-in-law had a successful contracting business, a home, a family, my sis with three awesome kids, he had everything. Then he discovered meth.
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  Of course he lost everything he had, my sis and her kids had to move in with my folks for a while, then went the house, etc., and by the semi end of the story, he was paying these other meth-heads he had working for him with meth. His original crews did not use meth, these were the POS's he hired later. The story doesn't end there, it gets worse. So, I agree with DT, do not even try it once, ever. Â
 @DT P.S. He had been my best friend for over 20 years before he married my sister; and before meth, he was a good man. I had known him since high school. I haven't even said a word to him since.
 @DT What's really sad and horrifying is that a person only gets that marvelous, incredible high once, maybe twice.
All of the rest of the downward spiral (physically, mentally, spiritually, medically, morally, etc.) is unsuccessfully trying to get that feeling back or at least trying to get rid of the miserable crash effects.Â
@DT Well said, sadly meth has all reached into suburbia. Apparently in some areas 'soccer' moms use it to loose weight. (sigh)
All you have said is true. IÂ live next to a meth house, ( been TRYING to get it closed down for a year, but THEY have rights, not the people who have to live by it)and it is a soul stealing drug, as well as a cancer to the neighborhood.
 @Beau's Mom I feel for you! :^( :^(
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Any odds at all your county's health district could do something, go to bat for you, declare this house a public safety hazard?Â
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@Beau's Mom I feel for you. Unfortunately in my experience the only sure way to get rid of a druggy neighbor is to move.
Poor kids, feel so bad for them. Glad they turned in dad. I hope they'll get to stay with a stable family, but it must break their heart that they cannot be with their biological parents.
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Wish more people remembered that having kids means you make good decisions, it is not all about you and filling your 'needs'.
Seems these girls had to grow up a little faster. They know right from wrong. I have hope they will turn out fine.
I rather doubt, that a little bodunk town the size of Twin Falls, with a population of less than 45,000 people, can be considerationed the capital of anything, except maybe stupidity. Every state has a loser town like Twin Falls. Right here is Washington, we have Granite Falls, another loser place.
 @wickeddriver My wording may have been wrong with saying its the capital but it is out of control. There is more than 45,000 people there. When it comes to Twin Falls, Jerome, Burly, Wendell, Buhl and Shoshone, it seems to have more Mexicans that are illegal then legal. About 70% to about 80% of meth comes from Mexico. The rest of it is made from home. The area is nothing but a bunch of framing and the Mexicans get the work and on the side sells their drugs. When it comes to Granite Falls, I remember when we first moved here and we were looking at small towns to live, and when we went there to check it out, I was shock to hear so many people brag about being in the rolling stones for meth. We did not move there.Â
Spin falls is what it is called in every city, town, of Idaho. This is meth capital of the world.
Both "parents" (no longer sure that is the appropriate term) messed up on drugs, these girls probably didn't stand a chance. Sounds like they are the adults here and are making their own chance. God bless and keep them both...
Wow. I tip my hat to those girls. Turning in your own family for a crime is hard on anyone, let alone for young teenagers. Hopefully their father will get the help he needs and hopefully those girls will be placed together in a comfortable and loving environment.
Good girls! It was the right thing to do, no matter how hard or upsetting it was. They both deserve better than the parents they got, and they're showing great strength by standing up and saying something when the time came.
I am glad that these girls know right from wrong and that they were strong enough to turn over their father. I do hope that this doesn't mean they will spend the rest of their childhood in state custody being bounced around to foster home after foster home. I wish them the best.
It also depends on how far under 15 they are... Most states you can be an emancipated minor at 16 and care for a younger sibling if there is not a better family member. These girls seem to have decent decidion-making skills. it might work once one is 16.
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Thank you. In the short term the girls may have a tough row to hoe...life long though, i think its for the best. I've SEEN what happens all too often to the kids of druggies.
Probably time to canvass the grandparents and/or aunts and uncles...before condeming them to state custody and foster care.Â
 I know, I raised one of my neices when my brother couldnt get his act together for a while. he eventually got his head on straight and is now remarried and raising 5(!) daughters.Â
A good friend is raising her Grandkids as the "parents" cannot seem to keep their acts together.
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Sad but true. Good on the girls though, they dont NEED to deal with a methhead for a dad.