Luther Drug Bust Nets Teacher, Wife

LUTHER -- The owner of a home day-care center and her husband, a Luther
teacher, were arrested Wednesday on complaints of possession of marijuana.

Lynn Michelle Steffens, 37, and Eddie Lee Steffens Jr., 32, remained in the
Oklahoma County jail Wednesday evening.

They were arrested on complaints of possession of marijuana and possession
of drug paraphernalia.

Eddie Lee Steffens, an agriculture teacher with the Luther School District,
also was arrested on a complaint of cultivation of marijuana, said Mark
Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Control.

Agents from the bureau searched the couple's home and day-care center at
2655 NE 178 in Luther on Wednesday morning after aerial surveillance found
about 40 marijuana plants in the back yard, Woodward said.

Woodward said agents found four marijuana plants in a barn on the property
and a small amount of marijuana in the home.

A loaded shotgun was found in a bedroom, he said.

Plants in the back yard were likely removed before agents arrived, he said.

Five children, including the couple's three children, were at the home
day-care center when the arrests were made, Woodward said.

Checked-by: "Rolf Ernst"