That headline to this Read the Lead is what Richland County residents who are in the know are asking each other after the arrest of the two pictured here.
A lot of people are familiar with both of these guys, Josh Millman and Nathan Headley. Millman has been known for years, between Edwards and Richland counties, as a kind of “ladies’ man” and spoiled brat kid, who bred with a well-known banker’s daughter while being alleged, at that time (2002-03) to have been heavily involved in the county’s drug trade. One of his cohorts in the venture actually approached me, prior to developing the newspaper in early 2003, to “pull surveillance” on a dope-cooking location outside of Browns, for $500 a night. Naturally I refused, and turned the information over to then-sheriff Rick Snyder, all to no avail. The dope cooking went on, all around us, with then-state’s attorney Brian Shinkle ignoring the BIG cooks/mules/precursor suppliers, and hitting all the penny-ante users instead…which is in part what prompted us to start the paper to begin with.
And of course, everyone in north Edwards County knows who Nathan Headley is…West Salem, in particular, is painfully aware of his identity, since they had to pay out an untold sum of money after the early 2005 incident in which their “police chief,” Jerry Joe McVaigh, policing outside of his jurisdiction (city limits), ordered Headley shot while he was running from a meth-making location in Bennington. The ensuing lawsuit cost not only West Salem, but the county, and gave Headley a considerable amount of “protection” afterwards, because he was being represented by one of the best law firms in downstate, McGlynn and McGlynn in the Metro-East area, in the federal civil lawsuit.
But now…things are different.
Here now is a shift in the way dope is being dealt with in Richland, and State’s Attorney David Hyde, about whom we’ve been considerably critical in the past, deserves props for these cases. Here’s Two of the area’s biggest meth cooks/dealers busted in Richland for your Read the Lead:
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Nathan Headley, Josh Millman
RICHLAND CO.— Two of the biggest methamphetamine cooks and dealers in the Disclosure readership area have been busted in Richland County.
Nathan W. Headley, 39, of 620 East South St., Olney and Joshua Eugene Millman, 36, of 4389 Michael Lane, Olney are well known in the drug community for being major suppliers/cooks of methamphetamine and are rumored to move any kind of illegal drugs they can get their hands on, including cocaine, heroine and prescription drugs just to name a few.
Witnesses have advised Disclosure that both Millman and Headley are said to sponsor numerous drug parties in rural locations, handing out their addictive products to adults and young teens alike.
Both men have been accused of getting countless teens addicted to methamphetamine in order to create a market for their drugs.
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