Meeker police confiscated a sizable amount of marijuana Monday night right across from Town Hall and arrested the man residing there, they said, as they served a search warrant on his house and property.
Assistant Police Chief Scott Wilson identified the man arrested as John Henry Hagar, 34. Hagar was transported to the Lincoln County Jail in ChandlerlateMondayevening andbookedonseveral drug-related counts.
Wilson said among the charges Hagar was booked on were possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Wilson claimed, “the 19 grams of fentanyl is probably enough to wipe out the Town of Meeker.”
He said eight Meeker Police officers and one from Prague began serving the search warrant as the Meeker Town Board was holding its monthly meeting across the street.
The assistant chief said when officers arrived at the house and property at 515 W. Carl Hubbell to begin searching, that no one was home.
But shortly afterwards Hagar showed up with a woman who dropped him off at the house and then left, he said.
“By the time he showed up, we already had found two to three pounds of marijuana,” Wilson said.
Wilson noted officers discovered about 2½ pounds of marijuana in Hagar’s shop on the property and around another eight pounds in the house.
“A little more than a pound was found inside a diaper wrapped up,” he said.
The diaper with marijuana inside of it was found in the shop, Wilson stated.
“We also found some small personal use bags,” Wilson said.
“In all, we confiscated 15½ pounds of marijuana and the 19 grams of fentanyl,” Wilson added.
Wilson explained, “Hagar has no Medical Marijuana license whatsoever.”
Officers found several one pound bags of marijuana, about a dozen Mason jars crammed full of the drug and additional baggies.
“We’ve been investigating this for a month,” Wilson said.
Police Chief Trent Norton pointed out, “We’ve responded to this residence in the last six months or so five or six times for various calls. “I’ve been doing this for 31 years and it’s the most weed I’ve seen in a long time,” Wilson said.