An eight-year-old boy in Indiana got into his father’s stash of methamphetamine this summer, ate some, and died while his dad, fearing arrest and punishment, refused to call for help, police say. Police said witnesses told them the boy, Curtis Collman III, lay on the ground yelling, hallucinating and talking to invisible people. The father, …
A Washington couple and their young children have been forced out of their new home just ten days after moving in due to crystal meth contamination. Jason and Amanda Gates from Washington were delighted to be able to buy a home in Maple Valley and get on the property ladder in these difficult times. However, …
Authorities released details on Operation Yellow Brick Road, an operation that busted a drug trafficking ring being operated by gang members, who the police say have been terrorizing the streets of a Hudson Valley city. On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman revealed that 16 members of the narcotics ring have been arrested and …
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A Washington woman was unconscious for two weeks after her car was struck Sept. 9 by a driver who police said had been drinking and using methamphetamine. According to authorities in Thurston County, in western Washington, Kathleen C. Hentze was drunk and also high on meth when she veered out of her lane and crashed …
Hazleton Police announced that a raid as part of the execution of two search warrants at Alter Street and Mine Street resulted in the end of a major heroin and fentanyl manufacturing facility. Manuel Luna-Bautista and Yamilka Hernandez-Sanchez were arrested Friday morning as part of the raid. The raid and search warrants were the results …
Every year there are more than 1 million drug arrests in the US. An estimated 80% of prison inmates have misused drugs or alcohol. There were 353,000 people facing a drug conviction in 2023 and 132,000 of those were in state prisons, 129,000 were in local jails and 90,000 were in Federal prisons. The …
Methamphetamine is a terrible drug, and the effects it has on people are very strong. Once addicted, it becomes normal for a person to lie about or minimize their drug use and its effects.
Police in Hobart, Ind., arrested a man they say was preparing methamphetamine in a small, concealed lab in a White Castle fast food joint. The arrested man was a customer of the restaurant, police said. Four officers were hurt breathing fumes from the drug production equipment. More than one person may have been involved in the …
A Southern California drug bust that came at the end of a year-long investigation resulted in 13 arrests and the confiscation of $10 million in heroin, cocaine, meth, and other drugs. Police said they think they captured the leader of the smuggling ring, a San Fernando Valley man named Omar Rangel, age 29. Narcotics being …
Volunteers cleaning debris and garbage from a river in North Carolina picked up a backpack with improvised meth-making gear in it, which exploded. Charlie Chang, 25, the volunteer who found the pack in the French Broad River, told local news outlets he didn’t look inside it but set it at his feet in a kayak, …
On New Year’s Eve, Michael Lester called 911 at around 9 p.m. and told the dispatcher in Polk County, Florida, that he was driving drunk and needed to be pulled over. Lester admitted to having consumed several beers and taken methamphetamine. He also indicated that he had barely slept for several days. All of these …
