ONE WARRANT LEADS TO ANOTHER

Marshall County officers hit the jackpot while serving a felony warrant. On August 2, Deputies Kasey Cox and Kristen Floyd reported to a residence on Kentucky Street because they received a tip that Charlie Raby, a suspect with a felony warrant, was living in a trailer.

Cox stated in the police report that he knocked on the door and inquired the female who answered the door — discovered to be Michele Roberson — if Raby was at the residence. Roberson initially said he was not there. Cox stated he knew better because he could see a suspect that matched Raby’s description.

“I observed through the crack of the door a male that appeared to be Charlie,” Cox stated. “I asked Michele again if Charlie was in the residence and not to lie ‘cause she could be charged for harboring a fugitive.”

Apparently, the idea of ten years in prison and a felony tarnishing her record did not appeal to Roberson, because she admitted to Cox that it was in fact, Raby.

As Cox was escorting Raby to his police cruiser, Marshall County Sheriff Danny Cryer approached the scene and was informed that Raby was buying Methamphetamine from the Oklahoma City area and selling to his niece and nephew for redistribution, and Raby had recently made a purchase.

Cryer said that is when he sprang into action. He asked Roberson how long she had been living with Raby, he replied just a few days. Then, Cryer asked her the question that snowballed into the big find.

“I asked her if she was a current drug user and at first she denied that she was, but after explaining what I had heard about Mr. Raby, and my knowledge of how the drug trade and the relationships within the drug trade worked, I asked the female again if she was a drug user, and she admitted that she was,” Cryer said.

Roberson admitted to doing drugs just the previous day, and that she smokes Meth. Cryer then inquired if she had any drugs on her person, to which she denied. He then asked if she used a pipe to smoke, and she said yes that it was in her bag of clothes.

Cryer asked the female if he could search her property, and Roberson responded that it was not her house, and she did not have the authority to allow a search of the house.

“I explained to her that I was not asking to search the house, I was asking to search her personal property for the meth pipe that she told me she had in her bag,” he said.

Roberson then gave Cryer permission to search her belongings. While Roberson was searching through her pile of clothes in search of the meth pipe, Cryer noticed a baggie with a “green leafy substance.” Cryer handed the item to Floyd and asked her to secure it. Cryer also noticed a cap to a syringe and inquired if a diabetic lived at the residence, to which she replied no.

Cryer located a used syringe that was in plain view of the officers. They also discovered numerous syringes, small Ziplock baggies, a digital scale.

Once back in the living room, Cox located a Ziplock baggie that was sticking out of the “natural gap” between the top of the cabinet and the ceiling. Upon further inspection, Cryer identified the substance to be consistent with Meth. They did a field test on it and it came back positive.

Roberson denied any of the substance in the baggies being hers. However, she did admit to the pipe that she was initially looking for, and Cryer found as being hers. Cryer had Roberson write a statement as to who she believed the drugs belonged to.

Raby is currently in the Marshall County Jail waiting to answer to two felonies; Trafficking of Illegal Drugs and Falsely Impersonating Another to Create Liability. Raby also has a prior conviction of Possession of a Controlled Substance — Meth.