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Student seeking doctorate degree in chemistry arrested on meth lab charges

When police arrived at the Castle Drive, Atwater home of 36 year old Jason West, they found ingredients and equipment that would have enabled him to produce enough methamphetamine to pay for his UC Merced college tuition with millions of dollars to spare. Read more »

When your dad is a meth lab cook

The victims of meth lab homes include not only renters and home buyers, but also the children who have grown up with parents who make methamphetamine. Kambri Crews, a producer and publicist who now resides in New York City, says she once lived in a tent, a tin shed, a trailer, and then back to a tin shed in Montgomery, Texas before her family moved to Ft. Worth, Texas, the place where her family was ripped apart. Read more »

Meth labs: Nature trails pose new dangers to walkers and hikers

How do you avoid getting busted for a meth lab? If you’re like many meth cooks, you’re not setting up your meth lab in your home or apartment. You’re finding a location far from where you think DEA and law enforcement agents might be looking for a meth lab - in the woods. It is one of the theories that police are exploring as they try to find out why two teenage girls from Oklahoma were shot to death Read more »

Editorial

Did CA Shafter High School teacher Jeff Ryan intend to make meth ?

Jeff Ryan, a high school teacher in Shafter, CA bought matches and pseudoephedrine. He also downloaded a recipe to make meth from the Internet. Prosecutors say that’s because he intended to make methamphetamine. Ryan says he bought the ingredients for a class project, one he says would attempt to make matches that could be struck anywhere. His lawyer says he is telling the truth, touting his record as a good teacher and his lack of a motive to make methamphetamine.

To his lawyer, I can come up with at least one motivating factor. It is spelled M-O-N-E-Y . Meth is selling for record prices, since the the U.S. and Mexico began putting the clamps on meth distribution and manufacturing.

Proposed meth lab cleanup legislation in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio is unfair to property owners

If Cuyahoga Falls city leaders have their way, property owners there will pick up the entire tab for meth labs. At a recent meeting about the meth lab problem there, Assistant Law Director Hope Jones told residents that they are considering making property owners responsible for paying the expenses incurred by the police department, meth lab testing fees, and the building department’s cost to vacate the property, in addition to the meth lab decontamination cleanup that are already placing financial burdens on property owners there and across the U.S.

Jones also told attendees of the meeting that the average cost of cleaning their meth lab home would set Read more »

New England sleeps while meth traffickers watch and wait

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 »

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House cleaner says her cleaning cloths are turning purple

I have a question! I don’t know much about meth other than it is a major problem that is growing. Anyway, I paint and clean apartments and I have noticed in some of the ones I have cleaned, when I spray my cleaning solutions to start scrubbing, my rag or paper towel turns purple. Does that have anything to do with meth contamination or any other drugs. I’m concerned that I may be bringing this contamination into my home on my clothes.

Reader comments about meth lab increases

The truth is, meth labs are on the rise almost everywhere and they’re a whole lot harder to detect. Cooks have begun buying precursor chemicals in bulk, and they also started using the “one pot method,” reducing cook time by 75%.

Anyone that thought curtailing supply was going to end this problem Read more »

Mom worries that her home is contaminated

How do I know that my home is “clean” from previous meth use?

The previous owners of my home had a meth lab according many of our neighbors. My understanding is the bulk of it was done in a shed. I am unclear if this is our current shed that is attached to the house or a shed that may have been in our backyard at one time. I am also unclear how much meth was done inside the home. I do know the walls & cabinets have not been redone and the air vents have not been cleaned. I believe Read more »