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| Alisha Halfmoon |
It looks like our economy is affecting everyone, with a daily growing list of those falling on hard times. Things have gotten so bad, that even meth abusers and dealers can’t afford to purchase the ingredients necessary to whip-up the next batch.
That’s exactly what happened to Elizabeth Alisha Greta Halfmoon. The 45-year-old woman was arrested Thursday for cooking meth inside a Walmart.
In her defense, she told police she was "too broke to buy the chemicals" and take them home.
Surveillance cameras captured Halfmoon’s strange behavior in the store. After about six hours, store employees decided to call police. She had been trying to mix ingredients in the back of the store.
Apparently, she picked the wrong day to go to Walmart, because she lacked the main ingredient Pseudophedrine. So, basically, all of her culinary efforts produced nothing except a ticket to jail.
"She maybe didn't know how to do it," Corporal Scott Anderson said.
While Halfmoon’s cooking experiment yielded a mixture that would be worthless for a meth user, the concoction could have been dangerous. She was mixing sulfuric acid with lighter fluid in a bottle when police arrived, and some of the lethal chemicals had melted the paint off a nearby shelf.
This particular Walmart has become a popular place for cooking (or attempted cooking) of meth. Back in October, another Tulsa resident was arrested for carrying what was essentially a portable meth lab.
The Tulsa Police Department reports that 690 meth labs have been busted in the city since 2009.
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