Kalamazoo County, Michigan sets new meth lab bust record in 2008
December 3, 2008
Kalamazoo County, Michigan has set a new meth lab bust record for 2008 with the Thanksgiving eve bust of Robert Evans, the father of a 5 year old daughter, who was living in the home at the time of his arrest. The number of meth lab busts in Kalamazoo County in 2008 has skyrocketed since 2007, when they had 27 busts for meth manufacturing.
Kansas Meth Lab cleanup budget cuts
December 2, 2008
Contaminated meth lab homes in Kansas may not get cleaned up due to budget problems in Kansas, according to Roderick Bremby, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Funds to clean up toxic meth lab homes are on the agency’s chopping block, along with reduced funding for Read more
Lincoln County Minnesota: Meth lab news for home buyers
October 8, 2008
Lincoln County, Minnesota has figured out a way to deal with the high cost of decontaminating meth lab homes. They are going to make property owners responsible for paying for the cleanup. You could do what my son did in 2004 and buy a toxin-filled home and be left holding the bill for the cleanup, despite the fact that you had nothing to do with the contamination.
While I want to alert everyone about Lincoln County, MN about what’s going to happen to property owners there, you need to know that Read more
Meth lab found in Louisville Kentucky apartment
August 30, 2008
Police found evidence of a meth lab in an apartment in the 4600 block of Wattbourne Lane in Louisville. A 29 year old male and a 26 year old female were charged with manufacturing meth, tampering with evidence, and possession of drug paraphernalia on Wednesday.
Source: “2 charged with making meth at Louisville apartment”, Courier-Journal.com, 8/30/08, http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080830/NEWS01/808300479/1008/NEWS01
How to find a meth lab in Jefferson County Missouri
August 24, 2008
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has posted a listing of meth labs that includes meth labs busts from 2007 and 2008. Note that the postings say it contains “some” of the meth lab busts. If you don’t see an address on the list, it does not mean that the home is safe. If you moved in to or moved to a home in Jefferson County in 2007 or 2008, you can check the list to make sure that the home you’re currently living in isn’t contaminated. Read more
Kentucky meth labs disclosure and cleanup rules amended
August 20, 2008
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. Read more
New England sleeps while meth traffickers watch and wait
July 21, 2008
According to the DEA, the demand for methamphetamine in Massachusetts comes from gay male communities in Boston and Cape Cod. Although, the demand for meth is low in Massachusetts, the DEA sees a demand for meth that is migrating in to the general population. Currently, meth is coming in to the New England area through Read more
Missouri Sheriff warns citizens not to rely on state statistics
July 14, 2008
In February 2008, 2 meth labs were discovered in Boone County, Missouri. One lab was found in an apartment located at 405 N. Garth Ave., and another active lab was found in the 4000 block of Griffits Lane, northwest of Columbia. Yet, both labs were omitted from Missouri’s yearly report about meth lab seizures. Read more
Meth cook steals electric from grain facility in rural MN
July 10, 2008
Higher than “normal” electric bills don’t send up the red flag warnings that they used to, in an economy flooded with utility cost increases. It is a fact that one meth cook in the Mapleton and Minnesota Lake region of Minnesota depended on when he hooked up his home to a neighbor’s grain storage facility. It worked, for awhile at least.
His free electric source came to a screeching halt though, when the facility’s owners called an electrician to help them take a look at a problem at their grain facility. When the electrician asked the owners where the Read more
Mississippi meth disclosure on real estate forms is no guarantee
July 5, 2008
If you’re buying a home in Mississippi through a licensed realtor, you’ll notice something new on the seller’s disclosure form - methamphetamine labs. If a seller knows that the home was used to make meth, they are supposed to let you know by indicating it on the form. However, home buyers should not think of the disclosure as a guarantee that the home was never a meth lab. The home could still be contaminated, with or without the seller’s knowledge. Just because a realtor’s disclosure form doesn’t reveal that the home was a meth lab, it doesn’t mean that the home never was. Read more