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I have a little expiernce with METH HEADS. 3 years ago.
We had had a lot of car and garage break ins. Dirt bikes, tools, lawn mowers, chain saws etc...
One morning at 4:30 am, my son headed to his work truck and discovered that over $5000 of tools had been stolen by someone.
He called police and made a report and went on to work.
The nextdoor neighbors went to their car about 7:00 am and found their laptop and a carton of cigarettes had been stolen and called the cops to report it.
The cops informed him of my son's report 2 hours earlier.
My neighbor owns a security system. He rolled it back to the last time he had been outside and knew the car was closed.
He discovered the perp in both of out yards going back and forth from vehicles to the woods behind our house.
Long story short, we armed ourselves and went into the woods. Found a an empty bag of bugles and a soda on the ground where he sat watching both of our homes.
Continued on to find a tent
where he had been squatting for at least 6 mos.
We found all the stolen items at his camp as well as drug paraphernalia.
(Once we saw the tent we called law enforcement, but we had to walk them into the woods to show them the spot.)
*I KNEW I heard someone walking in the woods back there and told my husband several times. He told me I was being paranoid.
(I wasn't, he had been lurking about for some time )
Police came to tear his camp down and recover all the stolen items. Meanwhile he showed up at another neighbors house who had two preteens in the backyard. He took one of the girls by the neck and drug her up the back steps with a gun pointed at her head!
The police (and there were many by now saw him and approached)
He let the girl go and shot in air and said you aren't taking me! And ran.
He got away.
So yes, the searches are possibly looking for a tent or bunker in the woods.
EDIT: I posted a few photos so you can see some of the things that we found in my next post.
AND as evidence to back up my story as true.
Moo