Kansas farmers use locks to secure anhydrous ammonia tanks

Making meth in Kansas isn’t as easy as it used to be, thanks to the the efforts of the Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project. Through a collaborative effort with K-State Research and Extension, the Kansas Meth Prevention Project, has developed a lock that they hope will Read more

Nebraska still lacks meth lab clean up standards and disclosures

Despite a 2006 law, that directed Nebraska health officials to develop meth lab clean up standards by July 2007, the state still does not have clean up standards in place, nor does it require home sellers to disclose their home’s history. Former state senator Ray Aguilar of Grand Island expressed his concern that the standards had still not be created by the state, noting that without regulations in place, the law he helped pass, fails to do what it was designed to do – protect the health of the public.

Nebraska’s reasons for delaying the creation of clean up standards and disclosure requirements have to do with questions about the legality of requiring home owners to disclose the history of their home to a potential home buyer.  Nebraska Realtors agree with Read more

Single mom Andrea Wagner buys contaminated meth lab home

Stow, Ohio: Andrea Wagner bought a meth lab home on Meadowbrook Boulevard for $147,000,in January 2006, not knowing that she was buying a home contaminated with meth lab chemicals. The seller, who bought the home at a Sheriff’s auction never told her Read more

TN tax on illegal drugs nixed by TN Supreme Court

The TN Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a tax on illegal drugs was unconstitutional, because the “crack tax” is not a tax on  “merchants, peddlers and privileges.” However, the court also ruled that the tax law did not violate protections against self-incrimination, which may allow them to develop a new tax on drugs that would be constitutional. Read more

AL: Kids find meth lab cooler in the woods and bring it home

7/23/09 Two boys in Marshall County, Alabama were riding their four wheelers in the woods near their home this week, when they found a cooler containing a portable meth lab.

The mother of one of the boys says her son came home with the cooler and said “mom, I think I found some meth”. Inside the cooler, she says she found lithium batteries and a container that was about the size of a 20 ounce bottle with a crystallized substance in it.

She then told the boys to wash their hands, take a shower, and change their clothes. She then called Read more

Waipahu Hawaii meth addict pleads guilty to ax murder

A meth addict Waipahu pleaded guilty on Friday to murdering his father and injuring his mother four years ago,  when he was high on crystal meth.  Mark Kawakami, 46, says that on the day that he attacked his parents with an ax,  he  heard voices that called him “chicken” and other voices that kept telling him “do it”.

Kawakami pled guilty to second-degree murder charges for killing his father and attempted murder charges for trying to kill his Read more

Video: Indiana police warn residents about meth lab trash

Indiana police warn residents about meth lab trash.

Arkansas: The Cornell family meth lab home

McRae, Arkansas: Hazel and Clarence Cornell lived in a trailer for a year, after they found out that the home they bought in 2001 had once been used as a meth lab.  Soon after they bought a new home where they hoped to spend their retirement years, health problems began.  Read more

Nicole Bobek: Olympic Skating Champion facing meth charges

Nicole Bobek, 1995 Women's Olympic Skating Competition Title Winner

Nicole Bobek, former Olympic Figure Skating Champion is in the news again, but it’s certainly not good news this time.  She has been named as a “significant player” in a meth distribution ring that involves more than two dozen people, according to  Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

Nicole Bobek, 31,  is the only child of Jana Bobek.  Naturally, her mother is concerned Read more

Alabama: Two meth labs explode in Bayou La Batre

Bayou La Batre, Alabama was in the news for the second time this month, because of meth lab explosions. When the first meth lab exploded, just about two weeks ago in room 110 of the Bayou La Batre Inn and Suites motel, Bayou Police Corporal Jason Edwards said it was a first for the city. It didn’t take long for that to change. A second meth lab, located in a trailer home on Satsuma Street, blew up with so much force that it broke every window in the house as well as the door. No one was inside the trailer when the explosion occurred.

Video coverage by Fox 10 TV covered the story of a second meth lab explosion that blew the windows and walls out of a trailer home that had been occupied by the son of Frank Collier, Sr. Franks says his son had been staying with him for the last 5 or 6 days, because he had double pneumonia, but he had gone to the trailer home earlier that night to get some clothes. Police have not named his son as a suspect.

Other interesting news about Bayou Le Batre:

On July 13, 2009, Bayou La Batre received national attention when President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin, a Bayou La Batre physician,  as the nation’s surgeon general.  Read more about her nomination and watch video coverage of her speech on WKRG Channel 5 News.

NPR talks about life in Bayou La Batre in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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