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Two Bratt Residents Get Probation For Operating Mobile Home Meth Lab
October 1, 2009
The residents accused of operating a meth lab out of a Bratt mobile home will avoid jail time; both have been sentenced to probation by an Escambia County judge.
Daniel Wayne Sheets, 29, and Mary Elaine Sheets, 28, were arrested May 20 on multiple drug charges after deputies located the meth lab at 3740 Highway 168, near Wiggins Road. Both plead nolo contendere as charged. Daniel Wayne Sheets was found guilty, and an adjudication of guilty was withheld in the case of Mary Elaine Sheets.
Both were sentenced to 18 months probation a drug trafficking charge and 12 months concurrent probation on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and the possession of chemicals used to manufacture a controlled substance, according to court records.
Daniel Wayne Sheets and Mary Elaine Sheets will face one-time fines and charges of $818, plus $52 per month for the probation supervision, and both will be required to reimburse authorities for the May cleanup of the meth lab at the mobile home on Highway 168, court records state.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Unit and a special Hazmat team from Tallahassee were called to the home to investigate and remove the meth lab.
Escambia County Deputy David Preston said authorities received a tip that a truck belonging to Atmore bank robbery suspect Chad Jeter might be at the residence. The sheriff’s departments from Escambia counties Florida and Alabama, the Atmore Police Department and the FBI attempted to locate Jeter at the mobile home on May 20, but he was not there.
While authorities searched for the bank robber, they discovered a meth lab being operated at the mobile home.
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43 Responses to “Two Bratt Residents Get Probation For Operating Mobile Home Meth Lab”
First of all, the DA’s office offers the pleas based on evidence!!! Not the judge. Theres alot more to this story , like the landlord who was arrested for setting fire to the home while the Sheets were incarcerated..Not to mention that , there were NO DRUGS found in the home and the ” lab” was found in a 3 acre wooded area located behind the Sheets home (OPEN ACCESS TO ANYONE)… Another thing, Daniel Sheets past criminal charges are from Juvinille years except the one charge -robbery with a fire arm that was dropped and later the guilty party was convicted…Easy to judge when u dont know the whole story !!!!!!!!
Judge Kenneth Williams needs to be investigated! He’ll be replaced when we vote him out.
That’s the danger with humor, sometimes even the smartest just don’t get it.
Yes, Bratt is a lovely place.
Yes, most people in Bratt are well behaved.
Yes, there are some people in Century with bad reputations.
Yes, there are even some criminals in Century (even in Bluff Springs for that matter).
And, finally, yes, there are criminals pretty much everywhere.
That was actually the point.
And conversely, there are quite a few people in Century who have been raised in clean houses by honest, hard working, polite people who taught them respect and decent behavior.
They are just sometimes overlooked by the ones who want to look down on others
David the opinionated.
HUIE GREEN,
MAYBE iF YOU GOT OUT MORE, OR MAYBE WAS’NT SOOO OPINIONATE YOU CAN SEE IT’S NOT JUST BRATT, BUT ALLL COMMUNITIES NOW THAT HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
I COULD BE NASTY AND SAY, “OH THOSE POOR CHILDREN IN CENTURY FINALLY WILL GET OUT FOR A WHILE TO SEE A CLEAN NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOW TO SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT AND MUCH MORE YOU CAN GO ON AND ON.
YOU KNOW, I JUST COULDN’T RESIST. BE NICE HUIE……..
my brother got 7 year formeth lab and his car it wasn his first time in jail but people like this get a slap on the hand did they know the judge?
This is a joke.
sentencing for all of their charges are “concurrent”…so, it will be a total of 18 months probation for ALL charges…seems to me, that EVEN if they did provide substantial assistance involving info on additional or bigger drug participants, the judge could have, at least, ordered their probation sentences to be served back to back..for a total of 2 1/2 years…wish we could get some feedback from one of the drug task force members, regarding their opinion on the sentencing that these two recieved…but, im sure that theyd never do that publically
That judge Kenneth Williams must have inhaled some of Sheet’s meth!
I invite you to look at the Escambia County Clerk of Courts website and look
at Daniel Wayne Sheet’s criminal history.
Sheets is a repeat offender. He should be locked up.
Is this justice?
Check out his criminal history !!!!
To get probation for a meth lab they must have told on someone bigger than them to get this deal. You can bet on that.
People are getting busted with pot, get harder charges than this. Either the judge is tied in, or more is going on there than is listed
I am with you Ummmm… ok… This is just absolutely absurd. The judge in the couple selling pills is judge Boles. I want to know who the judge is in this case as well as the others wanting to know. I feel that we should have the right to protest.
Amen slimshady, you got that right.
People this world is not getting any better, we need to be on our knees praying for our community and our country. There is only one True Judge and I promise you he will get it right.
Slim
This is such a joke! You let these kinds of people out and they will just reoffend. It is a way of life, not just something they were doing for fun. I wish the article mentioned what happened to the children. Hopefully they are nowhere near these two.
You can go to Escambia Co Clerk of Courts and they have a new page now you click onto public records and then click court records and then put in the name and do the search and it will bring up any info they have on them.
You can look up anyone with a record.
And by the way it was Judge Kenneth L Williams
Is it still a law if you get caught so many feet from a school with drugs you get extra time? How far were they from Northview or Ernest Ward ? In Atmore they do not inforce this and iI am not sure if this applys to all states.
hey William,can you get us the judges name in this case??
Ya know, this shows how truely messed up the system is. It wasn’t but what a month ago and there was a couple who had sold a few pills and got fifteen years a piece and now here is a couple who HAD a meth lab set up in their house, making and of course selling it and only got probation. Hmm, something doesn’t go together here. I hope someone gets to the bottom of this light sentencing.
Smells fishy.
Sounds funny to me. Ifthey were caught they sound go to prison, just like the others. Hay, something is very wrong here.
it is funny you get 18 months of probation for a lab but get caught with possesion of meth and you get 5 years on probation with a $3000.00 fine plus a year of inhouse drug rehab tell me if you think that is right
I don’t even know WHAT to say about this……………………..RIDICIOULOUS, can anyone go out on the side of the road and PROTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
Does anyone happen to know what judge gave this sentence? This is worth getting 20/20 involved.
I have no respect for this judge what a joke. Who did they tell on to get off like this. This is so not right I know someone who went to prison for 3 years for driving without a license! But in light of this maybe some fool in prison can use this case to get out!! As far as judge williams haha ha sooner or later the same snitches you let off this easy will be back these are not the only ones. Wish Judge Bell would have got this case. I hope JUdge Bell never gets as soft as this judge people talk about him but at least he treats most people how they deserve. I can’t believe I said something good about him but sometimes you got to.
THESE PEOPLE SHOULD GET WAY MORE THAN JUST PROBATION. WHO EVER THEIR JUDGE WAS , HE OR SHE SHOULD BE QUESTIONED ON WHY HE GIVE THEM SUCH A LITE SENTENCE. AND HE OR SHE HAD BETTER HAVE A GOOD ANSWER AS TO WHY.
judge must have been a customer, what a joke
The article didn’t mention the children. I hope they don’t get thrown back into this environment. I agree with Ike. . . .these kind of people can’t help but mess up again, so maybe next time (and there will be a next time) the judge will come down harder on them. But let’s all hope they don’t blow up the neighborhood before being caught again!
and now these poor Century children have to go to Bratt where they have meth labs?
Sorry, just couldn’t help myself.
As to why the judges give different sentences:
sometimes they are just having a bad day
some defendants have more defiant demeanor than others
some have worse backgrounds
it’s a crap shoot, that’s why I try to avoid coming before judges
David the timid
Dont worry folks. They’ll violate in a few months for not paying for supervision costs and be right back in the Escambia Hilton. Never fails.
What about the children that were involved in this case? Where are they and will they be returned to these parents (if u can call them that) to be exposed to more of this lifestyle? This just breaks my heart to think our system is so messed up that they let them go free and will most likely allow them to have the children back. So not RIGHT!
Find our who the judge and the prosecutor is in this case and remember it when it is time to vote. Need to be sure they are not re-elected. Unreal.
Probation? For a meth lab?
We read all the time about our deputies bustin their behinds to put people in jail, and they have been doing a great job especially the past few weeks.
But then the courts let these folks back out on probabation all the time? Or they drop charges? What is up with that?
this is to “NOT FAIR”- The state offered a plea for these two wonder why so easy many people are wondering the same thing considering this is not the first time with meth you can go back to 7years ago and see for yourself.. this is our system what a joke
Our system is messed up!!!!!!! This is not this couples first rodeo !!!!!
what a joke
That is ALL they are getting for potentialy blowing up ones self or neighbors? Not to mention a friggin meth lab-wouldn’t that be classified as intent to sell also?
Only probation? Starting today these two can get right back to their business of manufacturing meth.
our great judicial system let people with serious crimes back on the streets to do it again but put the innocent ones behind bars
hmmmmmmm.
Ok this is so NOT FAIR. You can bet that they are now personal narks for the police now.
hmmmmmmm i smell a rat here. they got off to easy.
Yep, you are right about that. Everyone else is getting hard time and these two got probation.
This is NOT fair!!!! My brother was caught with only the makings used to make meth and he got 7 years, no meth lab in his house, only the makings of it in his car. OH HELL NO, something aint right here.
I want to know what Judge did this? You can bet your bottom dollar that these 2 are now the biggest narks 100 miles around.
Goes to show just how crooked the system can be, and it aint a thing we can do about it.
These 2 scum bags should have went straight to prison. So NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!
So you can get 15 years in prison for selling a few pills…. but only get probation for manufacturing meth. Something does not add up here at all….