Jacksonville Florida: Meth lab explodes in Park Place apartment building

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Jacksonville, Florida:  On Tuesday night, nearly two dozen residents had to leave their Park Place Apartment homes in Jacksonville, after a meth lab exploded on the second floor in an back apartment located at the  7541 S. Habersham Circle complex. Luckily, no one was injured by the blast, although the whereabouts of the couple who …..Read More

Florida: Boyton Beach Police Officer Of The Year Facing Serious Meth Charges And Prison Time

David Brito, a Boyton Beach police officer, who was named Officer of the Year in January, is facing serious meth charges after an investigation by the DEA’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. David Brito, 28, who has worked for the Boyton Beach police department since 2006, was indicted on Tuesday for conspiring to possess …..Read More

Illinois meth law will place new restrictions on convicted meth cooks

Illinois House Bill 1908, a meth bill sponsored by State Rep. John Bradley (D-Marion),  is on its way to Governor Pat Quinn’s office, after receiving the approval of both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. Once the Governor signs the bill in to law, those who have been incarcerated on meth charges …..Read More

Arkansas pseudoephedrine bill puts sales decisions in hands of pharmacists

The Arkansas House has passed a pseudoephedrine bill (60-31) that gives pharmacists, not doctors,  the responsibility of deciding which consumers have a medical need for products containing pseudoephedrine. Once the bill becomes law, pseudoephedrine buyers will also be required to present either an Arkansas ID or a military ID to a pharmacist. Pharmacy technicians, under …..Read More

Massachusetts: Retired Connecticut Cop Arrested for Meth and Ecstacy

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Massachusetts State Police arrested Richard W. Thunberg, Jr, a 50 year old retired Connecticut cop, after finding close to 2 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle. Ecstasy and equipment used for drug distribution was also found at his townhouse home in North Gosvenordale, Connecticut. Thunberg, a native of East Brookfield, had worked for the Plainfield, …..Read More

Alabama meth lab clean up money disappears

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Methlab clean up money in Alabama, once obtained by the state from from federal funding grants, will no longer support the clean up of meth labs in the Heart of Dixie state.  Alabama Sheriff’s report that the cost of having chemicals removed from a single meth lab can be anywhere  between  $1,500 and $5,000. According …..Read More

Alabama: Meth Lab bust in Madison County sets new state record

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Madison County, Alabama: The Madison County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Unit and the Huntsville STAC team set a new state record on Wednesday night when they discovered over 200 one-pot meth labs in a garage attached to a home on Elkwood Section Road. Jerry Whitt, 36, met the law enforcement team with a rifle in his …..Read More

Should products containing pseudoephedrine be available only by prescription?

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Should pseudoephedrine become a prescription drug? The resurgence of meth labs nationwide is spurring some lawmakers to try to enact laws in their state that would make medicines containing pseudoephedrine, like those found in Sudafed, only available to those who have a prescription. Oregon did just that in 2006, when Governor Ted Kulongoski signed legislation- …..Read More

San Francisco: Laurel Heights meth lab shocks neighbors

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San Francisco: Neighbors of the affluent community. known as Laurel Heights, were shocked to learn that they’d been living next to a meth lab. Laurel Heights is the kind of neighborhood that most people would never suspect of housing a meth lab – including the police. Meth labs have sprung up all over the country, …..Read More

Colorado Springs: Million dollar meth lab home sparks legal battles

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Colorado Springs lawsuit: A million dollar meth lab home built in 2006 in the Peregrine-Tuscany Heights neighborhood that was sold this summer for $1,050,000 now lies vacant. Its new owners, Bryan Groth, a podiatrist, and his wife Kimberly Gielarowski, an attorney, can no longer live there according to Colorado law and a 90 page meth …..Read More