by admin | Jun 10, 2008 | News
Governor Matt Blunt (R-MO) has signed Senate Bill 724 , legislation giving Missouri law enforcement another tool to fight methamphetamine. The bill creates a new system to track potential meth manufacturers and alert law enforcement officials to potential abuses of...
by admin | Mar 5, 2008 | Politics / Govt
First the amount of pseudoephedrine you could buy was limited, then pseudoephedrine was put behind the counter, now all prescriptions might be monitored in an effort to combat methamphetamine production and the trafficking of prescription drugs. Preliminary approval...
by admin | Feb 7, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Missouri State Highway Patrol numbers say Missouri is still number one in the country in the number of methamphatamine lab seizures. The Patrol counted 1,285 working and former meth labs seized last year. Indiana and Tennessee were numbers two and three in the...
by admin | Jan 28, 2008 | Crime / Courts
Franklin County Sheriff’s officers say a witness watched a 7-year-old boy drag a bag of garbage from a motel room to a dumpster and watched as an adult helped the boy lift the bag into the container. The bag contained toxic waste from a meth lab. A few minutes...
by admin | Nov 27, 2007 | Politics / Govt
The $1.8-Million that Congress has failed to come up with to reauthorize the MoSMART methamphetamine-fighting program in Missouri will come from elsewhere – state coffers. Governor Blunt is calling for the entire amount to be part of a supplemental budget. The...