NATIONAL METHAMPHETAMINE TRAINING & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER
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Latest news: 01-26-2012
Meth found in suitcase worth $1 million
CA - A narcotic investigation conducted by the Siskiyou County-wide Interagency Narcotic Task Force resulted in the seizing of 11.8 pounds of methamphetamine and the arrest of a suspected drug transporter in Weed on Tuesday. According to a press release issued by the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, the package had a street value of just over $1 million. Martin Chavez, 49, of Portland, Ore. was arrested on charges of possession of methamphetamine for sale and transportation of the drug.The arrest occurred at a bus stop in Weed. An SCSO narcotic-detecting canine was alerted to the presence of drugs in one of the suitcases stored on a commercial bus, the release stated.
Suspect in Missouri caught with boiling bottle of meth in coat
MO - Police in southeast Missouri have arrested a drug suspect, a man caught while allegedly trying to conceal a bottle filled with a boiling mix of methamphetamine in his coat pocket. The Kennett Daily Dunklin Democrat reports that narcotics investigators were conducting surveillance of a farm home Tuesday near Steele. When a vehicle left, police followed it. The driver stopped in the middle of the road and ran. Agents chased him down. Police say that during the arrest the man dropped from his coat a plastic bottle in which meth was in the process of being made.
Man arrested after his kids test positive for meth
TX - A Lufkin man was arrested Tuesday on charges his two young children tested positive for methamphetamine. Benjamin McCoy, 23, was taken into custody on two counts of endangering a child and a warrant for speeding. Last month, the Angelina County Sheriff’s Office raided the home McCoy shares at 1501 Pershing Ave. with his girlfriend and mother of his children, Laura Dixon, 34. The sheriff’s office had been investigating McCoy and Dixon on suspicion of methamphetamine possession and manufacture. McCoy reportedly tried to run out the back door but was caught. He and Dixon were both taken to jail and arrested on drug charges.
