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Lady Bulldogs beat Lone Oak,
The Howe Lady Bulldogs split the two games this week by beating Lone Oak, 53-39 and losing to Whitewright on Friday night, 4838.
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In Tuesday's win, Peyton Streetman led all Howe scorers, which has become a theme, with her 16 points She teamed with Madisyn Hargrove, who had perhaps her largest scoring total of the season at 13 thanks to hitting three three-pointers
Howe held the slimmest of margins after the first quarter, 1211 but went on an 18-5 run to take a 30-16 lead into the halftime locker room. Howe also took the third quarter, 15-13 but Lone Oak finished strong with a 10-8 run
Other scorers for Howe were Kayla Anderson (10), Jenna Honore (4), Landry Rhoten (4), Cally Vick (2), Emily Sanders (2), and Ally Harvey (2)
The Howe Bulldogs continued to struggle to break through to the win column recently and lost both games last week to Lone Oak and Whitewright
According to a Howe Police Department press release, two of their officers seized over two pounds of methamphetamine during a traffic stop on U S Hwy 75 early Monday Morning
Chief Carl Hudman reported that on January 23, 2017 around 1:13 am, Howe PD Detective Keith Milks and Officer Oscar Martinez stopped a vehicle on Northbound U S Hwy 75 for a traffic violation After speaking with the driver and passenger and noticing nervousness and conflicting travel plans between the two occupants, Milks asked for consent to search the car Officer Martinez, who is fluent in Spanish, translated for Det Milks during the encounter The 25-year-old passenger claimed ownership of the car and granted the officers’ request to search
Det Milks found a large clear bag of a crystallized substance that he believed was methamphetamine secreted in an area under the passenger side windshield wiper base After the officers removed the bag, they fieldtested a portion of the substance and it tested positive for methamphetamine It had a total weight of 2 75 pounds
Officers also seized a set of digital scales from inside the car, less than a gram of cocaine from the 27-year-old driver’s wallet and 1 4 grams of methamphetamine from the passenger
Officers seized $1,871 00 in currency from the suspects and intend to file civil forfeiture proceedings against it According to Chief Carl Hudman “This is the largest drug seizure by Howe officers in many years, if not the largest ever” He estimated the street-value of the drugs to be anywhere from $90,000 – $100,000”
Arrestees: Pablo Garcia-Camacho, Guadalupe Oriz-Martinez
