A confidential informant helped Ashdown, Ark., police investigators to arrest three people purchasing pseudoephedrine from an Ashdown pharmacy.

“Pseudoephedrine is commonly used to manufacture methamphetamine when used outside the box of its intended purpose, the common cold,” Ashdown Police Detective Doyle Crouch said.

After police arrived at the pharmacy, a vehicle belonging to Michael Dixon, of Lockesburg, Ark., was searched and two rifles were found in the toolbox.

Dixon has prior felony convictions of manufacturing methamphetamine. Because of the convi...

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