 An arrest took place on Christmas Eve as a man was found in the kitchen area of Hardee's in Pikeville, high on meth and yelling incoherently. When it was Christmas Eve we received a call from Hardee's employees saying that they've got a male causing the disturbance inside the restaurant when officers arrived on scene. They entered the restaurant and found the male that we know was Curtis Parsons. He was behind the counter, actually had went back there with the employees, causing the big disturbance. He was actually smoking a cigarette, throwing things, you know, saying things that didn't make a whole lot of sense. So you know we took him into custody for being public intoxication, causing the disturbance disorderly conduct. He was also making comments like there they are, he felt being very paranoid thinking that people was after him almost like he was hallucinating. We took him to the detention center where he ended up making the comment that he had eaten a bag of methamphetamine. So we had medical staff check him out and clear him and everything before he was booked in at the jail. You know in the past few years we've definitely seen a big rise in the meth abuse and you know probably the majority of our arrests that involve drugs it seems it is meth or related to meth and you know now that it's gotten here and it seems to really taken a foothold in this area of the methamphetamine. I just like for everyone to just take warning that you know if they see something that they think is meth or know someone that you know might have threw some out or whatever to not even be handling it because you know there's been several instances like they were we're seeing a meth to our crime lab and it's coming back that it's actually laced with fentanyl and fentanyl is very deadly even if just touched by your skin. If you find something like that just don't touch it just call us and we'll come by and we'll try to dispose of it in the proper way. We find ourselves leaving you know things that you know could definitely use our attention you know in patrolling neighborhoods trying to prevent thefts and things because we're having to put so much attention towards this this meth epidemic it's in our area. If you know someone that maybe needs help or you think someone may be abusing meth or selling or dealing or anything like that you can always call call 911 if it's an emergency but if it's not an emergency you know please call us you can call us at 606-437-5111.