Student seeking doctorate degree in chemistry arrested on meth lab charges
August 11, 2008
When police arrived at the Castle Drive, Atwater home of 36 year old Jason West, they found ingredients and equipment that would have enabled him to produce enough methamphetamine to pay for his UC Merced college tuition with millions of dollars to spare. Read more
When your dad is a meth lab cook
July 24, 2008
The victims of meth lab homes include not only renters and home buyers, but also the children who have grown up with parents who make methamphetamine. Kambri Crews, a producer and publicist who now resides in New York City, says she once lived in a tent, a tin shed, a trailer, and then back to a tin shed in Montgomery, Texas before her family moved to Ft. Worth, Texas, the place where her family was ripped apart. Read more
Meth labs: Nature trails pose new dangers to walkers and hikers
July 24, 2008
How do you avoid getting busted for a meth lab? If you’re like many meth cooks, you’re not setting up your meth lab in your home or apartment. You’re finding a location far from where you think DEA and law enforcement agents might be looking for a meth lab - in the woods. It is one of the theories that police are exploring as they try to find out why two teenage girls from Oklahoma were shot to death Read more
While her husband serves his country, she cooks meth in Alabama
July 7, 2008
Cortney Rae Wilson, 28, and Dennis Raymond Griffith, have been charged with conspiracy to make and distribute methamphetamine in Huntsville, Alabama. Wilson is the mother of two children, ages 6 and 8 months. She is also married to a man who is currently serving in Korea as a member of Read more
Big Business: A Meth Lab Owner’s Story
June 25, 2008
Ever wonder why someone would choose to make methamphetamine? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out - it’s easy money and it gives them a constant supply of the drug they typically become addicted to. One meth lab owner confessed to Newsweek, that he made $200,000 a year tax-free, making and selling methamphetamine and other drugs to his customers. Selling meth can be Read more
Gerald, Missouri: Criminal imposter gets a job as a drug cop
June 25, 2008
When Bill Jakob applied for a job in Gerald, Missouri, he told police chief, Ryan McCrary, that he wanted to help fight the town’s methamphetamine problem. Considering the fact that Jakob told McCrary that he had been working as a federal drug agent in Illinois, who had a badge, a gun, a fully-equipped Ford Crown Victrola, and a contact number to verify who he was, McCrary hired him. It was all a lie. Jakob was actually an unemployed truck driver with a criminal record and financial problems.
What happened during the time Jakob worked for McCrary is an unbelievable and scary set of events. A set of events that prompted an investigation about him, by a Gasconade County Republican newspaper reporter. Read more
Police Chief and wife arrested in Lonoke County Arkansas
June 24, 2008
Police Chief and former narcotics officer, Ronald Jay Campbell was served with an arrest warrant by the Lonoke County Sheriff Jim G. Roberson on charges including manufacturing methamphetamine, hindering prosecution, and burglary and theft. His wife, Kelly Campbell, was also charged with burglary and theft. Kelly Campbell reportedly also made a practice out of bringing home inmates from the city jail for sex and Read more
Meth lab cooks are like terrorists says fire marshal
June 5, 2008
When detectives from the Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigators from the Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office arrived at a meth lab at Fort Walton beach, they found more than a few Coleman fuel cans and empty Sudafed packets. They found an escape plan that would allow the meth cooks to detonate more than two dozen pipe bombs that protected the lab. The meth cooks had planned to use one of several doors to make a quick escape out of lab and in to their secret bomb detonation area in a Read more
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
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.
