While Oklahoma legislators continue their debate over whether pseudoephedrine should become a prescription drug, another fire in Tulsa has ended in the tragic death of a 15 month-old baby boy. Early on Thursday morning, firefighters received a call from neighbors of a Tulsa duplex, who reported smoke coming out of the back of a duplex, …..Read More
Okmulgee, Oklahoma plans to fight their community’s meth lab problem, despite the recent opinion handed down by their state Attorney General. In the opinion of the AG, Oklahoma’s cities can not enact their own pseudoephedrine prescription laws, that is a right given only to state legislators. But earlier this year, state legislators failed to take …..Read More
Oklahoma cities can not enact their own pseudoephedrine prescription laws, according to a ruling by the their state Attorney General, E. Scott Pruitt. According to the July 29, 2011 Attorney General’s ruling, Oklahoma cities “have no power to enact or enforce local ordinances prohibiting the dispensing, sale, and distribution of pseudoephedrine without a legal prescription …..Read More
(7/19/11) On Tuesday, Okmulgee city council members unamimously approved a new ordinance that will restrict the sale of pseudoephedrine (PSE) to consumers with a doctor’s prescription. In a show of support, several members of the OSU Center for Health Sciences attended the meeting holding stop-meth signs, according to David Starkey, a PSE prescription law advocate. …..Read More
Bartlesville, Oklahoma: During an investigation of a possible armed robbery or home at an apartment complex on the 800 block of S.E. 4th Street, police found the makings a meth lab. Stripped lithium batteries, coffee filters, bottles of drain cleaner, empty pseudoephedrine blister packs, an electric grinder with white residue in it, and a 20 …..Read More
Oklahoma: Jennifer Ragland and Leana Lauck have been accused of obtaining meth from two men in exchange for allowing them to sexually abuse a 3-year-old boy at the LaQuinta Inn near South Meridian and Interstate 40. Leana Lauck, the boy’s mother, was arrested on child neglect charges on Wednesday after she opted to stay at …..Read More
Hundreds of Oklahoma homes are being sold at auction, after their owners failed to pay their taxes. By state law, county treasurers can sell properties if no taxes have been paid to the county in 3 1/2 years and the property that went up for bid today have not had any taxes paid on them …..Read More
Oklahoma joins a growing list of states who have a methlab clean up problem that they can’t pay for. Last year, the state of Oklahoma received $600,000 in meth lab cleanup funding money from the DEA; but last week that all changed. The federal government has ended its financial support of meth lab clean up. …..Read More
Mike Griffin, a Tulsa Police Department Corporal who works in its Special Investigations Division, described himself to state legislators as a “go-to-guy” when it comes to one-pot meth labs. This video contains part I of Griffin’s testimony at the Oklahoma State Capitol this month, as he tried to educate legislators about how meth cooks circumvent …..Read More
Tulsa, Oklahoma (August 10, 2009 ) The Tulsa State Services building became a Hazmat scene yesterday morning, when city workers found a meth lab at the bottom of a stairwell located in the building’s south side. Workers were unaware of what they’d found and decided not to handle it the situation themselves. A Hazmat team …..Read More
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