Prosecutor wants retailers to take more control of instant cold packs

If you’re buying instant cold packs in Indiana to make meth and think no one will suspect what you’re doing, think again.  A Gibson County Prosecutor, who is concerned about “shake and bake” meth labs,  has asked retail store owners to help deter meth lab cooks from buying the cold packs in his county.  He wants retailers to manage the sale of instant cold packs, the way they manage the sale of Read more

US Soldiers sickened by chemical found in meth lab homes

Iraq war veteran Russ Kimberling Kimberling is one of nearly 50 current or former Guard members from Indiana, Oregon, and West Virginia who are suing over health problems caused by Chromium 6.

National Guard members from Indiana, Oregon, and West Virginia, are among the other U.S. soliders and civilians who have filed lawsuits against KBR, Inc, a company that they say failed to protect their health, while they were working at a water treatment plant for them in Iraq in 2003.  Hexavalent chromium, also known as Chromium-6,  is a chemical that got national exposure in the movie “Erin Brockovitch”, that starred Julia Roberts,  in 2000. Read more

Minnesota: Couple unknowingly buys house from meth lab cook

All that Kristi and Justin Keller wanted was a home to call their own, where they could someday raise a family of their own. After years of saving their money for a down payment, they Read more

Making meth in Kansas and Missouri is about to get alot harder

Making meth in  Kansas and Missouri is about to get alot harder, when computerized data tracking systems get installed in each and every one of their pharmacies. Thanks to the pharmaceutical industry, that day is coming very soon. The Pharmaceutical Industry is giving both states the gift of digitized systems that will keep track of who may be buying pseudoephedrine-based products to manufacture methamphetamine.  Additionally, the industry says Read more

Indiana: The Sabatino meth lab home story

In 2006,  Julie McCoy Sabatino bought a small two-story house in Churubusco, Indiana, an affordable home where she dreamed of happy days together with her 10 year old son.  But, health problems began, just a few weeks after Read more

Maine: DEA arrests couple for making meth in Bath

BATH, Maine  (July 16, 2008)  The DEA filed charges against a Bath couple, after finding evidence of a meth lab in a shed behind their home on Shaw Street.  Walter Kruse, 42, was charged with trafficking and furnishing methamphatemine. Beth Grasser, 35, was arrested for aggravated trafficking of prescription drugs.  Three children were living in the home were removed from the home and put in the care of other adults, according to a report about the incident by the Associated Press.

Source:  “Agents find suspected meth lab in midcoast Maine”, Fosters Daily Democrat, http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080716/NEWS0104/101954823, 7/16/08, accessed 8/21/09

Kansas meth lab clean up program cut comes at high cost

A meth lab clean up program that has operated in Kansas since 1999, that was cut from the state’s budget last month, has the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) concerned.  For the last decade, whenever a meth lab has been discovered in Kansas,  removal of the hazardous and volatile chemicals found at the scene, were quickly removed. The assistant director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) says since the state’s clean up program was cut, that has all changed. Read more

Kentucky Meth Lab clean up law amended

FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 14, 2008) — People who are considering renting, leasing or buying a residence must now be given written notice by the owner if the property has been contaminated by methamphetamine and has not been properly cleaned up by a certified contractor.

Failure to give potential occupants a written notice will be a Class D felony under amendments to the current Kentucky meth lab Read more

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

Kansas meth lab clean up program ends

Meth lab clean up funds in Kansas have ended, according to a report by the Associated Press.  With $270,000 of its $313,000 budget cut, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has decided to end the clean up program. Funding that remains in the  Clandestine Drug Lab Response program will now be spent on closing the operation.

According to the report, the program responded to 170  clean up requests from law enforcement, last year.  Private contractors, who Read more

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