Anaheim man allegedly ran meth lab from 87-year-old aunt's home
A 52-year-old Anaheim man has been arrested and charged with manufacturing methamphetamine in the living room of his 87-year-old bedridden aunt, authorities said Wednesday.
The meth lab was discovered Monday by authorities conducting a welfare check on the elderly woman after her granddaughter called police to say she had not heard from her grandmother in three months, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
Police arrested Thomas George Hogue, 57, the caretaker of his aunt, who was confined to her bed in another room.
Hogue is being charged with one felony count each of manufacturing methamphetamine and elder and dependent adult abuse, the district attorney's office said.
He was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. If convicted, he faces a maximum of eight years in state prison.
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EDITOR'S PICKS:
This is just wrong all the way around.
Posted by: Katz Meow | January 12, 2011 at 02:51 PM
Some days you just want to stay in bed and read Nothing.
Posted by: blackone | January 12, 2011 at 03:08 PM
and he probably got paid by the state to take care of her too.
Posted by: mike02 | January 12, 2011 at 03:22 PM
People on meth can rationalize anything.
Posted by: affableman | January 12, 2011 at 03:29 PM
I cant believe he betrayed her this way! OMG! This man should pay! for what he did to her! In HER HOME
Posted by: V | January 12, 2011 at 03:59 PM
Was this guy 52 or 57? The editing for the OC Register is glaringly deficient. Could it have something to do with the author writing in ESL? This kind of activity is completely reprehensible. There are sooo many adults mooching off their parents in this economy it just makes me very ill. America is fast becoming the third world.
Posted by: mansterEZ1 | January 12, 2011 at 04:57 PM
it was dumb move on his part. he should have had it somewhere else, not in the place you have to live. its possible it could have blew up.
Posted by: kennedy | January 12, 2011 at 04:58 PM
I was mistaken to attribute this to the Register although their editing leaves a lot to be desired. What has happened to the Times? Their editing used to be a whole lot better than this.
Posted by: mansterEZ1 | January 12, 2011 at 04:59 PM
This is pretty low down. Thank God, he got caught!
Posted by: Alex P. Gomez | January 12, 2011 at 10:47 PM
he probably did! We have a person named David Hasner(sp?) living on El Capitan Street in Buena Park who had a car accident while under the influence of meth and gets paid by the state for his disability and was getting paid by the state to care for his Alzheimer ridden mother......we once witnessed from our upstairs window david hosing off his mother in a wheelchair with a garden hose outside...they cook meth, they use it, they steal to support it and yet Buena Park PD can do nothing to stop it...meth is a wonderful thing isn't it....
Posted by: Tom, Long Beach, California | January 13, 2011 at 09:06 AM
Is he 57 or 52?
Posted by: JCej | January 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM