1.   Capt. Steve Werner pulls at his mustache and frets, as he always does when his officers take down meth dealers.

2.   Meth dealers often are so strung out on their own junk and so damned heavily armed, dealing with them is like dealing with no one else.

3.   Meth dealers showed up riding on motorcycles or in pickup trucks, while coke dealers were associated with flashy cars.

4.   No one was killed in that raid, but the possibility of death is always there in dealing with meth dealers.

5.   The biggest, baddest meth dealer in Jackson County, Mo., history looked neither big nor bad.

6.   The meth dealers, never intending to sell anything but only to steal his cash, shot him in the head and fled.