Brodhead man pleads not guilty to meth charges
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Roy Van Brocklin
MONROE — A Brodhead man waived his preliminary hearing and pleaded not guilty to methamphetamine charges Wednesday in Green County Court.
Roy Van Brocklin, 32, was arrested Friday in Brodhead.
The court scheduled a Tuesday district attorney conference, and Van Brocklin remains jailed on a $5,000 cash bond.
He faces charges of possession with intent to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of materials for manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of waste from manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He also was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
Court records allege Van Brocklin had about 5 grams of meth in a plastic bag, an ephedrine or pseudoephedrine product, red phosphorus, lithium metal, sodium metal and ammonia in his truck when stopped by Brodhead police officers at about 3 p.m. Friday.
He also had flammable liquid, corrosive acid, tubing, containers, iodine, antifreeze, aluminum foil, coffee filters and a written recipe to make meth in his possession, as well as marijuana and a glass pipe and wooden pipe in his possession, according to court documents.
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Apr 1, 2009 at 5:54 a.m.
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kit_katt: You said "maybe you shouldn't be blaming the family at all! i know the case and i know him personally and it sounds much worse in the paper then what the actual story is".
Are you referring to the comment by gmaof3 "Maybe he wasn't breastfed as a baby, his parents abandoned him"?? That was obviously just humourous speculation. Do you have any real information to add? How is the actual story not as bad as the article? How is this guy not a "scum bag"?
Mar 31, 2009 at 1:52 p.m.
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maybe his family has nothing to do with it. maybe you shouldn't be blaming the family at all! i know the case and i know him personally and it sounds much worse in the paper then what the actual story is. so don't put the blame on everyone because you believe it would easier just to blame someone. people can comment all you want because there is no reason to bring up his family or call him a scum bag.
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:21 p.m.
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For all of you who didn't catch the first paragraph in the story, it's GREEN COUNTY! No Rock County DA riding this case so he may in fact spend A little more time in the gray bar hotel than say someone arrested here in Rock Co. would...... On A side note to the Gazette, A better way to have written the ending in this article may have been to just say he was caught with all the ingredients and equipment used in the manufacturing of Meth in his truck at the time of his arrest instead of providing A shopping list for anyone interested in making this drug...... Sometimes I have to wonder and say to myself "Part of the solution or part of the cause" So Gazette which side of that do you want to be on? Please I ask of your paper to use A little better discretion when writing about these types of drugs that are manufactured with easily purchased items in the future, these drugs are bad enough without adding fuel to it! Please cancel tomorrows story on how Heroin is cut......
Mar 26, 2009 at 6:43 p.m.
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Did he download the recipe from FoodNetwork.com?
Maybe he just had a REALLY bad cold and needed ALL of that Sudafed!
Maybe he wasn't breastfed as a baby, his parents abandoned him, he was kicked off the spelling bee in school for picking his nose....
Wouldn't want anyone saying I'm "a hater", ya know, when I call him a scumbag!
Mar 26, 2009 at 5:29 p.m.
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with all the info on what he had we can now start up our own lab as we now know what ingredients we need. Also it would be a job of some sort.
Mar 26, 2009 at 5:03 p.m.
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Maybe the police "planted" the meth lab in his truck.
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:58 a.m.
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Better questions yet is "What has this society turned into?"
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.
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My D/L says "Aflac". Does that count?
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.
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MAYBE HE AND NORBERT CANTU THE TENTH CAN SHARE A CELL ??????
WHAT HAS THIS COUNTY TURNED INTO?????
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:20 a.m.
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He is probably going to fight the production of meth chsrge, because they didn't catch him actually making it. The way the DA is, he will probably let him plea down to jaywalking.
Just because you look like a duck, quack like a duck and have duck on your drivers license, doesn't mean you're a duck.
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:18 a.m.
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I would have to second that.
Mar 26, 2009 at 9:52 a.m.
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Even though he plead not guilty I kind of suspect he's actually...let's see now, I don't want this to seem like a kneejerk reaction, I'm basing this just on the contents of this article, I have no personal knowledge of this case, this is just a hunch...he's GUILTY!
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