Kentucky police back out of meth lab home in fear of massive explosion
May 30, 2008
When the South Central Kentucky Drug Task Force tried to serve a search warrant at 290 Gasper River Road in Auburn, what they saw would have made anyone freeze in their tracks. Inside the residence, they found a meth lab with 16 gas cylinders that were five feet high containing several gallons of what they suspect was Read more
Mobile Alabama police want text messages about meth
May 30, 2008
Mobile, Alabama residents can now text message tips to law enforcement officials, if they suspect anyone is using, selling, or manufacturing methamphetamine.
Beginning Thursday, May 29, 2008, people who observe suspicious activity are encouraged to text the word Meth to 839863 (”TextMe”). The message sender will then receive a reply back, requesting Read more
Meth lab mobile home explodes in Tift County, Georgia
May 29, 2008
A Tift county man was air lifted to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, after his mobile meth lab home located at 145 Pines Drive in Ty Ty, GA exploded in to flames. Police found evidence inside the home that Read more
Entire family arrested for making meth
May 29, 2008
On Friday, May 23, 2008, Police arrived at 612 S.W. Utah St in Camas, Washington home for the second time in 7 years. Neighbors had alerted police, this time, that there were strange odors coming from the home. It was 6 a.m., when police arrived at the home with a search warrant in hand. It didn’t take long for police to discover that the odors that neighbors complained about were not the aromas of cheap coffee brewing. The occupants had just made another kind of pick-me-up that had nothing to do with caffeine. Read more
Meth lab homes in Ohio may be changing
May 29, 2008
Councilwoman Christine Croce has introduced legislation that seeks to provide some protection to home buyers. She wants anyone who owns a home or rental property that was once used as a meth lab to record that information on a city form, a form that would be given to a new buyer. If her legislation gets passed, Read more
Meth lab explodes home in Centerville, TN
May 29, 2008
A meth lab explosion in Centerville, TN resulted in Johnny Harrington going to the hospital. He is listed in critical but stable condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After the explosion, neighbors reported they saw Johnny running from the home, screaming in pain and begging for someone to help him. One neighbor said that his eyelids looked like they had been burned off in the explosion. Read more
How cleanup contractors clean a meth lab home
May 19, 2008
Anytime methamphetamine is cooked, it leaves widespread contamination behind. In the process of cooking the chemicals used to make methamphetamine, toxic chemicals travel through the air landing in places you might never expect them to. The contamination in a home or any other area used to make methamphetamine is extremely costly for the homeowner. Read more
Renters in Denver turn home in to a meth lab
May 19, 2008
A Denver, CO woman got a lot more than rent money, when she rented her home to a used car salesman, his mortgage broker wife, and their 7 year old child, according the denverpost.com.
“Before my kids leave for school, I drink a cup of coffee and meditate for an hour. This inward-looking time puts me into a current in which life is less effortful, less a race, less scary; I become calm, and full of certainty about everything . . . until the phone rings, and it’s my 17-year-old. He’s in his car in front of Read more
What is your child learning about Meth in school?
May 13, 2008
Teaching kids about the real world can help them learn in a meaningful way about themselves, others, and the world around them. But, teaching them how to make meth? That doesn’t make sense to me. We don’t throw people off a cliff to warn them that it dangerous, yet schools seem to being doing that to teach children about meth. It doesn’t make sense to me or to Teresa McCutcheon. Here’s what she had to say when Read more
Paster and school bus driver arrested for meth lab
May 13, 2008
An Arkansas pastor and his wife, a school bus driver, were sent to prison on Monday for cooking methamphetamine in their home at 2424 S. 26th St, in Rogers, Arkansas . When they go to prison, they will leave behind their 16 year old son.
Joseph Sisneros, 44, had been the pastor of the Fellowship Baptist church, which had been closed. His wife, Barbara Sisneros, 42, was still working as a school bus driver for Read more
Methlabs in America
Not a single thing meth is made from is illegal. Ingredients needed to make methamphetamine can be bought in stores in every neighborhood in America. Profits made by selling the drug are at an all-time high, which only adds to the problem.
