Man Who Sent Meth Recipes to Police Convicted of Making Meth

Speaking to Patch last week, Easton Police Inspector Salvatore Crisafulli said that meth accounts for very few of the drug arrest mades in the city. These days, he said, heroin rules the roost.

But it's probably safe to say that none of those heroin dealers ever wrote to city police, telling them how to properly manufacture the drug.

That claim to fame appears to belong to Michael Williams, convicted Wednesday in Northampton County Court of operating a meth lab and other drug charges.

According to the Morning Call, Williams maintained his innocence, while also writing letters to Crisafulli saying that the way police described Williams' meth recipe was inaccurate. He offered them a better recipe, and his expertise on other local meth cases.

Williams, 52, was charged in January following a raid at a home on the 1400 block of Pine Street.

It was the second meth bust in that neighborhood in a single month, and police have said the two labs were part of the same operation.

But in court Wednesday, defense lawyer Christopher Shipman, as reported by the Express-Times, offered another theory of the crime: Williams was a meth addict set up by the members of the first meth operation, who planted evidence in the trash outside his home.