Horses help Indiana police find rural meth labs

Meth Legislation: Senate and Representatives Track Sheet

S. 103 – Senator Talent (R-MO) introduced on January 24, 2005 the “Combat Meth Act of 2005,” a bill to respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamine in the United States, and for other purposes. Among many things, the bill would have SAMHSA establish a methamphetamine research, training, and technical assistance center “in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health” The bill was Read more

Discovery of a mescaline lab in Yucaipa California home raises concerns about contaminated homes

An investigation about forged prescriptions led police to the 33800 block of Lincoln Drive in Yucaipa, California, where they discovered glass tubing, chemicals, and a white powder – items typically found in a home or other property being used to make meth. But, something besides meth was being manufactured in this home, something that now raises further concerns about contaminated homes. Read more

Washington Senator asks for $1 million to help fight meth

Washington Senator Patty Murray, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, has announced that she wants $1 million in federal funding to support the efforts of the Washington State Methamphetamine Initiative. The 2009 Senate Commerce, Justice, & Science Appropriations Bill, which contains the funding she hopes to receive, has gone to the Senate for their full consideration.

For more information, please visit Senator Murray’s website

Georgia Mayor Dr. Walter Sandlin’s son facing meth lab charges

Joseph Sandlin, son of Lake Park, Georgia Mayor Dr. Walter Sandlin, has been charged charged with possession of meth, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and during a commission of a crime, and possession of tools for a crime by the Echols County Sheriff’s department.

Inside his car, Echols County Sheriff’s Deputy’s found Read more

Missouri Governor Blunt wants meth cooks to shop somewhere else

Governor Blunt is on a mission. A mission to drive meth cooks out of Missouri! By signing Senate Bill 724, he has helped to make it harder for meth cooks to buy pseudoephedrine containing products.

Any purchase of pseudoephedrine in Missouri by an individual will now be entered in to an online database by pharmacists all over the state of Missouri. The database will enable pharmacists to see in real-time the Read more

Illinois Meth Lab Registry on the Hot Seat

Illinois taxpayers feel that their state’s clandestine meth lab registry is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Personally, I think Illinois is moving in the right direction, although there are some definite improvements can be made to the Registry. What Illinois’ taxpayers may not realize is that the problem is not limited to the state of Illinois. It is a nationwide problem. Read more

Meth lab homes in Ohio may be changing

Councilwoman Christine Croce has introduced legislation that seeks to provide some protection to home buyers. She wants anyone who owns a home or rental property that was once used as a meth lab to record that information on a city form, a form that would be given to a new buyer. If her legislation gets passed, Read more

Illinois man is given life sentence on meth charges

February 29, 2008, was a bad day for 38 year old Monte Gearhart of Pomona Illinois. It was the day that a jury decided that he should spend the rest of his life in prison and pay a $500 for drug crimes that put his own young daughter’s life at risk.

Gearhart, who hasn’t even reached his 40th birthday yet, undoubtedly will spend everyday for the rest of his life regretting that he ever layed eyes on methamphetamine. Every year on his daughter’s birthday, he will feel sad that he will never be able to share another birthday celebration with her. He will never attend the most important events in his daughter’s life; her graduation from high school and/or college, her marriage, or the birth of her children. I am sure that Gearhart never thought it would come to this. They never do, especially when they’re high on meth. It is sad for him, but it is sadder still that his daughter has lost her father because he accepted a deal with the devil, otherwise known as methamphetamine.

The DEA report on Gearhart’s trial and sentencing:
At GEARHART’s October 2007 jury trial, the evidence established that, between at least February 2002, and September 19, 2006, GEARHART and others were manufacturing methamphetamine in Union and Read more

Hillary Clinton planned to address MethLab problem

Hillary Clinton’s had a plan to address the problem of meth labs if she were elected President of the United States. Here is a synopsis of her plan as it was posted on www.hillaryclinton.com.

Break the supply chain for illicit meth labs by:

Curbing international supply. Hillary will direct her U.S. Trade Representative, Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and Secretary of Homeland Security to work with Mexico and other foreign governments to improve regulation and policing of worldwide trade and smuggling of these meth precursors, building on progress over the last few years.

Curbing domestic manufacturing. Here at home, Hillary will give law enforcement the tools it Read more

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