Hampton, Kentucky: Three and four year old children test positive for methamphetamine

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Three children, the youngest of which were 3 and 4 year old boys, were removed from a Hampton, Kentucky home where several meth labs were seized. Medical tests performed on the children revealed that the younger children tested positive for methamphetamine. Kenneth Murray and Jamie Bryan, who were arrested at the scene, have been charged …..Read More

Oklahoma: New pseudoephedrine bill receives unanimous approval

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A new pseudoephedrine bill,  that gives Oklahoma pharmacists more control over the sale of pseudoephedrine, received unanimous approval (15-0) on Wednesday afternoon from the Oklahoma House Public Safety Committee. The bill gives pharmacists in Oklahoma the right to deny selling pseudoephedrine to anyone that they feel does not have a “legitimate medical and pharmaceutical need” …..Read More

Cleveland, TN: Meth lab fumes contaminate a dozen rooms at Holiday motel

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The discovery of a a shake-and-bake meth lab on Sunday at the Holiday motel on South Lee Highway necessitated the evacuation and relocation of close to a dozen motel guests, when officials determined that their rooms had also been contaminated. Officials believe that fumes from the meth lab traveled to the other dozen or so …..Read More

Jury finds Louisiana Sheriff Bodie Little guilty of meth charges

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Louisiana: After three hours of deliberations, jurors delivered a unanimous guilty verdict in a meth trial involving former Winn Sheriff A.D. “Brodie” Little. Little was convicted of the possession of five or more grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, two counts of using a communication facility to facilitate drug trafficking, and conspiracy to possess …..Read More

Oklahoma Meth Labs and Pseudoephedrine: Tulsa Police Corporal Testifies at State Capitol – Part II (video)

Mike Griffin, a Tulsa Police Department Corporal who works in its Special Investigations Division, continues his discussion about one-pot meth labs with Oklahoma legislators. This video contains part II of Griffin’s testimony at the Oklahoma State Capitol in October 2011, as he tried to educate legislators about how meth cooks circumvent the state’s tracking system …..Read More

Somerville Massachusetts: Meth lab charges against Professor Irina Kristy dropped

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Irina Kristy, a 74-year-old university math professor from Somerville, who taught math at Boston University and Suffolk University for several years, has been cleared of charges stemming from a meth lab bust at her home in November. Her son, Grigory Genkin, 29, whose shared the home with his mother, now stands as the only person …..Read More

Are open windows a sign of a meth lab ?

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Are open windows a sign of a meth lab? “My town house neighbor has a history of drug use. The thing that is puzzling to me is the fact that they have the windows open from 4 to 8 inches in the middle of February while temps are around 40 degrees or less. Could this …..Read More

Letter: Time for Law Enforcement to Back Up Its Citizens, Not Turn Its Back

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Are law enforcement officers really turning their back on the meth lab problem in their communities? This letter, like many letters that have been sent to Meth Lab Homes,  shows a dwindling lack of confidence that local police will address citizens’ complaints about meth. Time for Law Enforcement to Back Up Its Citizens, Not Turn …..Read More

Stillwater Oklahoma becomes home to largest meth lab bust in history

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Stillwater, Oklahoma became home to the state’s largest meth lab bust ever discovered in Oklahoma on Tuesday, when local and state law enforcement officers discovered over a hundred meth labs inside of a home located across the street from The Super Kids care center.  As of today, the number of meth labs seized stands at …..Read More