East Texas Meth Bust Nets Four Arrests

Some East Texas methamphetamine dealers were arrested after a drug raid in Payne Springs. Authorities charged Mikel Christopher Kirkpatrick and Debbie Sue Beasley, both 48 of Mabank, and 37-year-old Matthew Kristopher Walker, of Trinidad, with manufacture or delivery of a substantial amount of meth and tampering with evidence. They charged 37-year-old Edmund Shane Cranfill, of Eustace, with Possession of a Controlled Substance.