The Ocean’s 11 of meth robberies
U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth today accused 22 people of cooking up meth (in three separate cases). But this has to be the most interesting of the three.
Court records allege that James Robert Everson Jr. (or “Bimbo,” as his friends call him), robbed the Sanofi-Aventis U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri, on Super Bowl Sunday in 2007. The 41-year-old Everson allegedly took a security guard hostage and stole a 110-pound drum of pseudophedrine powder.
Here’s how Whitworth says it was done: Everson broke into the facility a couple of days before the robbery and waited until the beginning of Super Bowl XLI (he missed a helluva game between the Bears and the Colts). After kickoff, Everson allegedly took a female guard hostage at gunpoint and handcuffed her. Then Everson allegedly took four 50-kilogram drums of pseduophedrine powder, dragged the drums by rope to a dock area where he met an accomplice driving a flat bed truck. They loaded up and drove off, using the guard’s security key to exit the north gate.
Everson is charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute meth between June 2006 and May 2, 2009. He’s also charged with possession of pseudophedrine with intent to manufacture meth.
So are these other eight defendants:
- 36-year-old Jimmy Wayne O’Neal of KCK
- 62-year-old Robert William Webb (aka “Butch”) of KCK
- 37-year-old Shawn Anthony Clinkenbeard
- 48-year-old Micah Lee Boley of Grain Valley, Missouri
- 25-year-old John Robert Christian of Peculiar, Missouri
- 28-year-old David Doublas Margita of KCMO
- 42-year-old Eugene Edward Dove of Meriden, Kansas
- 45-year-old Clair John Easterbrook Jr. (aka “Homie”)
Everson also faces charges of conspiracy to restrain a security guard at gunpoint, kidnapping, robbery, brandishing a firearm, money laundering
Danny Ocean had a much happier ending.
