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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Ind. Law - "Meth chefs sharing techniques"
A quote from a lengthy story today by Abby Slutsky of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
As police have improved techniques for fighting the war on illegal drug labs, their enemies, methamphetamine cooks, have also adapted.And the new techniques for cooking the central nervous system stimulant have dragged the war on meth from the rural countryside to city streets. * * *
For years, because of the noxious odors and the need for anhydrous ammonia, a farm fertilizer, meth labs have typically been found in rural areas. But police say the latest method for cooking the drug doesn’t require the fertilizer, which was often stolen from large tanks on farms and at farm supply stores.
As a result, cooks have been able to manufacture the drug just about anywhere, including cars, homes and apartments in Fort Wayne. While the new method has less odor, the drug labs still pose dangers, including explosions and fires, because of the chemicals and process involved.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 27, 2008 09:41 AM
Posted to Indiana Law