Minnesota: Keller meth lab home sold in Sheriff’s sale

Justin and Kristi Keller of Cannon Falls, Minnesota no longer own a meth lab home. It was sold at a Sheriff’s sale to the lender who originally lent them the money to buy it, although the lender has gotten it at a significantly reduced price. Although the Kellers paid $250,000 for the home, the home [...]

KY Narcotics Officers want pseudoephedrine sales stopped

The Kentucky Narcotics Officers Association says meth labs are still increasing despite Kentucky’s rules limiting the amount of pseudoephedrine a customer can purchase. Kentucky reports 607 meth labs, including 135 in Louisville. Stanley Salyards, LMPD says it’s the most that’s ever been found in the city or the state and those figures only represent about [...]

Minnesota: Couple unknowingly buys house from meth lab cook

All that Kristi and Justin Keller wanted was a home to call their own, where they could someday raise a family of their own. After years of saving their money for a down payment, they found a nice split-level home in Cannon Falls, that appeared to be just what they wanted. It was an attractive [...]

Making meth in Kansas and Missouri is about to get alot harder

Making meth in Kansas and Missouri is about to get a lot harder, when computerized data tracking systems get installed in each and every one of their pharmacies. The Pharmaceutical Industry is going to gift each state with electronic tracking systems that will keep track of who may be buying pseudoephedrine-based products to manufacture methamphetamine.  [...]

Indiana: The Sabatino meth lab home story

In 2006,  Julie McCoy Sabatino bought a small two-story house in Churubusco, Indiana, an affordable home where she dreamed of happy days together with her 10 year old son.  But, health problems began, just a few weeks after

Maine: DEA arrests couple for making meth in Bath

BATH, Maine  (July 16, 2008)  The DEA filed charges against a Bath couple, after finding evidence of a meth lab in a shed behind their home on Shaw Street.  Walter Kruse, 42, was charged with trafficking and furnishing methamphatemine. Beth Grasser, 35, was arrested for aggravated trafficking of prescription drugs.  Three children were living in [...]

Kansas meth lab clean up program cut comes at high cost

A meth lab clean up program that has operated in Kansas since 1999, that was cut from the state’s budget last month, has the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) concerned.  For the last decade, whenever a meth lab has been discovered in Kansas,  removal of the hazardous and volatile chemicals found at the scene, were [...]

Missouri couple unprotected by meth lab disclosure law

Jason Dowdell and Michelle Dilorenzo, a Missouri couple, should have known they were buying a contaminated meth lab home, according to the state’s disclosure law, but they didn’t.

Kentucky Meth Lab clean up law amended

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. Failure to give potential occupants a written notice will be a [...]

Kansas farmers use locks to secure anhydrous ammonia tanks

Making meth in Kansas isn’t as easy as it used to be, thanks to the the efforts of the Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project. Through a collaborative effort with K-State Research and Extension, the Kansas Meth Prevention Project, has developed a lock that they hope will

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