Meth Factory in Wal-Mart? Woman Arrested Making Drugs in Family Store
A woman has been arrested at a Wal-Mart in Tulsa, Okla., after store employees found her trying to make meth in the store.
Elizabeth Alisha Greta Halfmoon, 45, also known to go by Alisha Halfmoon, was arrested for endeavoring to manufacture meth at the 81st and Lewis store, according to Fox 23 in Tulsa.
Police say surveillance video shows Halfmoon had been in the store since noon. Security in the store noticed the woman six hours later acting suspicious, so they called Tulsa police.
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Officers who responded to the scene claimed she was "too broke to buy the chemicals."
“She didn’t have the money to make the purchases of the chemicals that were needed so she was taking what was needed in the bottle,” says Officer David Shelby.
“This is a family store," says Jessica Fuentes, who also had her one-year-old son inside the store. “People need to start thinking. If she has family she needs to think about her family. If you are broke it’s just wrong."
”When I saw her she had just finished mixing sulfuric acid with starter fluid in a bottle,” says Officer Shelby.
The officers swiftly removed Halfmoon for the store as well as the chemicals before any shoppers were hurt.
“When firefighters were on the scene she made statements to them that is what she was doing, she was attempting to obtain these chemicals and was in the process of trying to manufacture meth. However, she said she was not very good at it,” says Shelby, according to Fox 23.
A responding officer did not know the bottle was active, and as he was discarding it, chemicals burned through the bottle as well as through his gloves, Tulsa World has reported.
He was treated for chemical burns on his hands.
According to reports, police say they arrested Halfmoon just last month in a “smurf” sting. Smurfs are known among police as meth cooks or recruits who purchase pseudoephedrine to make meth. The medication is often found in cold and allergy medicines and is the main ingredient needed to make meth.
