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Arizona Issues Drug Warrant For Parents Of Snowbound Oregon Family
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Marlo Hill-Stivers, left rear, and Pete Stivers, right, are reunited with their children, Sabastyan Stivers, left front, and Gabrayell Stivers on Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Glendale, Ore. (AP/Oregonian, HO)
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Peter Stivers and Marlo Hill-Stivers, in an undated family photo. (CBS/The Early Show)
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Peter Stivers hugs his mother, Becky Higginbotham, and daughter, Gabrayell, 8, after the family was reunited in Glendale, Ore., on March 20, 2006. (AP/Medford Mail Tribune)
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Later, Peter Stivers and Marlo Hill-Stivers ran up to a van as it pulled into town with the two children and Stivers' mother and stepfather, the Higginbothams.
"I love you baby," Marlo Hill-Stivers told her daughter, Gabrayell, 8.
"I love you too, mommy," she replied.
Authorities and Elbert Higginbotham say he was house-sitting for a friend in Heber, Ariz., when police raided the home. Higginbotham said he knew the drug was in the residence but called the arrest entrapment.
"We weren't dealing in any way shape or form," he said. "We told the cops who were doing it, and now they are making it out like we did it."
Deputy Cmdr. Kelly Clark of the Navajo County Sheriff's Department told the newspaper that the Higginbothams were arrested last year but weren't charged at the time because they agreed to cooperate with investigators.
"We let them go because they expressed an interest in working with law enforcement," Clark said. "We haven't seen hide nor hair of him since."
Police in Ashland said Friday they had not been contacted by Arizona authorities about the warrant and had no reason to arrest the couple.
Higginbotham said he planned to contact Arizona authorities.
"I've done some stupid things in my life," he said. "I've got to call them and take care of business. We don't run from things."
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