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INTERVIEW-N.Korean methamphetamines flood Philippines 30 May 2008 09:39:07 GMT Source: Reuters By Manny Mogato MANILA, May 30 (Reuters) - High-grade methamphetamines from North Korea have started to flood the Philippines, reducing street prices of the drug by about 50 percent, the head of the country's drug enforcement agency said on Friday. Dionisio Santiago, a retired general, told Reuters there was strong suspicion a huge shipment of methamphetamines seized at the former U.S. navy base of Subic north of Manila this week came from clandestine drugs laboratories in North Korea. "We've been informed by our counterparts abroad that North Korea has...

Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work. The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa. In a 60-page application for a search warrant, federal agents revealed details of their six-month probe of Agriprocessors. The investigation involved 12 federal agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the departments of labor and agriculture. According to the application, a former plant supervisor told investigators that some 80 percent of the workforce...

Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it. And a few hours later, when the city sent a contractor to fix the door the police had smashed open Monday afternoon, it was obvious the city was trying to fix a mistake. It happened while Kathy Adams was sleeping. "And the next thing I know, a police officer is trying to get me out bed," she said. Adams, a 54-year-old former nurse who said she suffers from a bad back caused by a patient who attacked her...

Imagine for a moment that a Fox News reporter was arrested in Central Park early in the morning with a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals. Do you think this little nuance would be included in press coverage of this bizarre event? Probably in the headline and the opening paragraph, right? Well, for some reason, though news outlets did report the odd happenings in NYC Friday morning when CNN's Richard Quest was officially arrested for loitering and drug possession, from what I can tell, only the New York Post included the "kinky" elements in its article...

This is CNN? Kinky! CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said. Quest, 46, was arrested at around 3:40 a.m. after a cop spotted him and another man inside the park near 64th Street, a police source said. The criminal complaint against Quest said the park was closed at the time - something Quest should have known because of all the signs saying "Park Closed 1 a.m. to 6 a.m."...

NEW YORK - A CNN reporter was arrested Friday in Central Park with a small amount of methamphetamine in his pocket, but he avoided jail time by agreeing to undergo drug counseling and therapy. Richard Quest, 46, was arrested around 3:40 a.m. on a count of possession of a controlled substance — a misdemeanor that usually refers to a personal use amount of a drug. He was also charged with loitering; the park officially closes at 1 a.m. When police saw and detained Quest, he told them, "I've got some meth in my pocket," according to the complaint filed in...

Richard Quest, a reporter for CNN International, was to be arraigned Friday on drug possession charges after police said he was found in New York City's Central Park with methamphetamine, the New York Times reports.

Authorities said Thursday morning that they’ve arrested 41 members of the Barragan Drug Trafficking organization, which they say has been importing 200 pounds of pure crystal meth a month into the United States from Mexico and distributing it throughout Washington and across the country. Five local men were among those busted over the last 36 hours, authorities announced at a press conference this morning in Tacoma. In Woodland, police and drug agents served search warrants at 620 Bozarth St. and 733 Second St. and arrested Epifanio Barragan Estrada, Francisco Manuel Ruiz Chavez and Jesus Larios Ruiz. Their ages and other...

Update: Despite efforts from Fox News to facilitate this dying girl's wish to have her father at her bedise when she passes, the imovable, cold-hearted, beauraucratic, red tape of the Jucidiary, Bureau Of Prisons and U.S. Attorney are intransigent in their unwillingness to bend the "rules" to allow this to happen.

Dad Allowed to Take Leave From Prison to See His Dying Little GirlThursday, March 27, 2008 OMAHA, Neb. — A 10-year-old Nebraska girl with terminal brain cancer had a simple last wish: to have her dad by her side as she lay on her death bed. On Wednesday, seemingly against all odds, Jayci Yaeger's wish came true. Her father, Jason Yaeger, who has been locked up in a South Dakota federal prison on methamphetamine charges, was allowed to see his daughter for what may be the last time. He was furloughed after a barrage of letters and phone calls from...

A little girl fights for her life, and her last wish is to see her father. But that wish may not come true. "They didn't expect her to still be here. She's fighting, day by day, minute by minute," said Vonda Yaeger, mother. 10/11 has followed the story of 10-year-old Jayci Yaeger as she battled brain tumors. Now doctors say she is about to lose that fight. Her last wish is to spend what time she has left with her father, but he is in a federal prison for drug charges. Less than six months ago, Jayci was energetic, fun...

Washington Stat Ping! I attended a Town Hall meeting yesterday with one of our local Washington State Legislators who lead off the 3 hour discussion with a long rambling story of a constiuent of his that was doing a followup UA test after a DUI conviction, and he said that since the night before the pee test she had used Nyquil and Theraflu, which he said both contain pseudoephedrine, the next day she popped positve via Urinalysis for methamphetamine. That sounds questionable to me, so I tried running it through Snopes with no luck, but I have never heard anyone...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican drug traffickers are the main suppliers of methamphetamine to the U.S. and produce enormous quantities of the drug despite government crackdowns, according to a recent U.S. Justice Department report. Mexico's efforts to restrict imports of precursor chemicals needed to make the drug, and a number of high-profile drug busts, have not led to lower meth production, the report said. "Despite heightened chemical import restrictions in Mexico, methamphetamine production in that country has increased since 2004, and Mexico is now the primary source of methamphetamine to U.S. drug markets,'' the National Drug Intelligence Center's 2008 report...

A drug sting at a St. Cloud gas station late this morning spun out of control, with the suspects unleashing an angry dog on an investigator, authorities said. The investigator shot and killed the dog, and one of the suspects was tasered before he could be apprehended, police said. The three men, one from White Bear Lake and the other two from Inver Grove Heights, were all in custody in the Stearns County jail. According to police: Shortly before noon, members of the Central Minnesota Drug and Gang Task Force bought 2 ounces of methamphetamine for $4,000 in a gas...

Under fire, Mike Huckabee countered mounting criticism from GOP presidential rivals Thursday by playing the woe-is-me card - and then hitting back by suggesting they lack substantial agendas of their own. "Everything but the kitchen sink is being thrown at me," the Republican leader in Iowa polls complained at nearly every stop. "If the only thing some of these candidates have to run on is what's wrong with somebody else, they must not have much of a platform to talk about." The former Arkansas governor recently soared from behind the pack of GOP presidential candidates to overtake Mitt Romney in...

Costly treatment for drug addiction spurs heated debate ...The treatment, called Prometa, is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an addiction therapy, nor has it undergone extensive scientific testing... [ Snip ] David Smart turned to Prometa when he hit rock bottom eight months ago. Smart had lost everything -- his wife, his family, his job and his home... [ Snip ] "I had tried everything and nothing worked for me," said Smart, 41, of suburban Tacoma, Wash. "But Prometa has." Mario Acosta Jr. also tried Prometa but relapsed within days of completing treatment... ... He took...

Federal authorities said Friday they shut down two major Mexico-based drug operations that were using Atlanta as a hub for trafficking marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine up the East Coast. By late Friday, 88 suspects had been indicted and criminal complaints — charges brought until an indictment is returned — had been brought against another 25.

A controversial Church of Scientology treatment used on World Trade Center emergency responders is being used in Utah to "detoxify" cops who raided methamphetamine labs in the 1980s and 1990s. The Utah Meth Cops Project is treating around a dozen former and current police officers at taxpayers' expense, using a regime devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard at a Bio-Cleansing Centers of America facility in Orem, Utah. State Attorney General Mark Shurtleff brought the project west after seeing it used to treat emergency workers in New York who were injured working at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11, 2001,...

CENTERTOWN, Tenn. - Seven men now face life in prison after a drug bust by police in a Warren County town. Authorities tracked down members of an international meth smuggling ring and moved in to make a bust, but one of the suspects jumped into a car and tried to run an officer over. Police then opened fire. One of the suspects was injured by shattered glass. All of the men were arrested and police said all the suspect are here illegally from Mexico.

HERNDON, Ky. (AP) - Burglars may have caused the chemical leak that led to the evacuation of an elementary school and residents, and they may have suffered chemical burns, officials say. Anhydrous ammonia leaked from a 30,000-gallon tank that had ruptured Monday at Agri-Chem Inc., an agricultural supply company. The chemical is used as a fertilizer, but it also is an ingredient in methamphetamine. State police and fire officials found that the fence surrounding the tank had been cut, and a valve looked like someone had tampered with it, the company said. "It looks like two people; we found their...

I saw a woman at the store near my house last Wednesday morning after I got off work. The moment I saw the woman, I knew she was on Meth. Her face was covered with black sores; she was pale, scrawny, dirty, and absolutely wild-eyed. She was practically dancing in place. Her speech was a jumble of pressured and confused babble; her movements were grandiose and repetitive. She constantly rearranged the items she placed on the checkout counter. At one point she looked right at me. Her expression was chilling. She managed to pay for her groceries, but then loitered...

A local company thinks it's found a way to help fight meth. CDEX Inc. has developed a device which can instantly detect trace amounts of the drug. Right now it's being tested in Greenlee County, northeast of Tucson. "When you pull the trigger, UV light comes out of the lamps," says Wade Poteet, the principal scientist behind the scanner. In an instant the scanner knows if a substance is meth or not. It detects traces of the drug down to one tenth of one millionth of a gram on clothes, skin, and other surfaces. The sheriff's department showed us how...

Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee will host an historic 24-hour online "conversation" with voters called "Vertical Day, starting at 10 a.m. CT / 11 a.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 24 and ending at 10 a.m. CT / 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 25, it was announced today. To officially kick-off the special event, Huckabee will host a live web-cast for bloggers and interested media at 11 a.m. CT / 12 Noon ET. (RSVP details below.) The goal of "Vertical Day" is to focus on the issues in order to attract a large wave of potential supporters...

"Life or Meth" DVDs are heading to all of Idaho's secondary schools to use in education programs to combat the growing methamphetamine problem in the Gem State and retired teachers are paying the freight. State statistics show Idaho is in the top ten nationwide in methamphetamine abuse. Alarmingly, chocolate and strawberry-flavored methamphetamine wrapped like candy has been found in Idaho and the Idaho Education Association is sounding the alarm. The group's "Retired Task Force" is delivering "Life or Meth" DVDs to representatives of every secondary school in the state. Sherri Wood with IEA tells SVO teachers can use the DVD...

A new kind of methamphetamine that has a strawberry flavor and bright pink coloring was seized for the first time in Carson City during a search of a Como Street apartment on Saturday, an official said. "(We are) concerned that this new type of meth will be more attractive to a younger crowd and may surface in schools," said Sgt. Darrin Sloan, commander of the Carson City Sheriff's Department's Special Enforcement Team. "Parents and teachers, please be aware of this new kind of drug that is making its way into our culture." Sloan said SET officers served a search warrant...

EFF BINGAMAN, SENATOR, SENATE For Immediate Release Bingaman: Albuquerque Receives Funding to Combat Meth Contact: Jude McCartin (202) 224-5521 September 13, 2007 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today announced that the Albuquerque Police Department has been awarded a $446,454 federal grant from the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to help fight methamphetamine use. Funding will be used to help combat the manufacture, use, and distribution of meth, and to collaborate with other entities in the prevention and treatment of meth abuse. ``The funding awarded today will help the Albuquerque Police Department continue its efforts...

Health officials in New York City say new statistics show an increase in syphilis infections among men and women. However, this is a small-scale example of a problem that is happening nationwide, they say. Unsafe-sex practices are being blamed for bringing the disease's old health dangers back to life after a drop in the 1990s. The New York Times reports that 260 cases of syphilis were recorded by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the first quarter of this year, including ten cases of female infection. That is more than twice the number for the same period...

As odd is it might seem, the next to last day of 2003 may someday be seen as a fateful moment for the traditional family. That is the when the United States Drug Enforcement Agency busted a pair of methamphetamine dealers in Philadelphia. In a remarkable example of the corrosive force liberalism exerts on our society, the arrest of these drug dealers led to an opinion issued July 31 by U.S. District Judge Marvin Katz that -- if sustained by the Supreme Court -- could erase the special status marriage and the traditional family enjoy in American law. (snip) The...

EUGENE, Ore. - A man hoping to score some meth asked the wrong person for the drug. The Eugene police vice narcotics unit had searched an apartment on Monday night and were questioning the tenant when a man came by and asked to buy drugs, Sgt. Jerry Webber said. As detectives stood around with their badges hanging from their necks and latex gloves on their hands, the man asked the tenant, "Can you hook me up?" Webber said. The tenant was seated on the couch with handcuffs around his wrists. A detective was writing him a citation. The tenant said,...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Two federal agents who took part in a raid that discovered $205 million in cash in a Mexico City mansion were found beaten and shot to death in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The bodies of Josue Hernandez, 32, and Anibal Sanchez, 30, both agents with Mexico's Federal Agency of Investigation, were found Tuesday in Guerrero state, where they were gathering intelligence on drug traffickers, the Public Safety Department said in a news release. Both officers took part in the seizure of more than 19 tons of a chemical intended for methamphetamine cartels in Mexico. They...

PASCAGOULA -- Chemicals from a methamphetamine dump exploded in the face of a 9-year-old boy, leaving him virtually blind in both eyes. "I just never dreamed this could happen," Mona Leissa Polk said as she cradled her son, Isaiah. "He's been so strong through this. He hasn't cried or even complained once. He's my hero." Isaiah, along with three friends, 6-year-old Kaimen Lowery, 8-year-old Noel Jones and 9-year-old Wendell Williams were playing in the woods behind the Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer park they live in last week. While exploring and talking about possibly fishing in a nearby pond, the...

Police Searching for Chlorine Gas Canister By WOL Staff Montgomery County, TX - A canister of compressed chlorine gas was reportedly stolen from the Regional Water Corporation (a water treatment facility in South Montgomery County) at 16705 Gleneagle Dr. N. Representatives from Regional Water Corporation reported to authorities that the facility had been entered sometime between the hours of midnight and 10:00 AM on Sunday, June 29. The suspect(s) allegedly entered the facility by cutting a hole in the fence at the rear of the property, and took the gas canister from the second floor of the plant. The canister...

ABINGDON, Va. — The Damascus police chief was arrested Saturday and charged with distributing methamphetamine. Anthony Stephen Richardson, 40, was arrested without incident at the city police department, Virginia State Police Sgt. M.T. Conroy said. The arrest was the result of an undercover investigation in which a confidential informant bought methamphetamine from Richardson on June 12, according to court documents.

Two more men were handed off to federal agents today, following a Wanamingo drug bust that yielded the most methamphetamine local authorities said they have uncovered. A series of arrests Wednesday netted 2 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, $8,000 in cash and a gun. SNIP Five men, ranging in age from 21 to 51, were jailed and handed off to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.... Benjamin Alvarez, 38, Wanamingo, Adolfo Valenzula, 21, Plainview, and David Grajeda-Barreras, 32, Wanamingo were booked into Goodhue County Jail on suspicion of first-degree drug charges.... The two men, Amado Valdez-Cuevas, 51, no known address, and Rigoberto...

I recently read an important news article forwarded to me by Bruce DeCell; the article appeared in the April 12, 2007 edition of the The Washington Post and it reported that a nasty drug, a “poor man’s crack”, or methamphetamine, is now being mass-produced and smuggled over our southern border from Mexico. Bruce is a founding member of an organization known as "911 Families for a Secure America," an organization that was formed by a group of people who lost a family member as a direct result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I act as an advisor...

LONG BEACH – Charges against members of an alleged multimillion-dollar, cross-border methamphetamine operation are expected to be filed today. ... The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is expected to file charges today against those arrested Monday including Guadalupe Espinoza, the reputed ringleader on the U.S. side of the border; Angel Cruz Valdominos, an alleged drug-runner from Tijuana; and Francisco Zepeda of Ontario, another alleged courier, LeBaron. ... Felony charges already have been filed against Olmero Torres of Santa Ana; Antonio Ayala of Downey; Carlos Ruiz of Riverside and Myra Ayala, Jose Nieves, Jorge Gonzalez, Heriberto Garcia, Kenny Yanagihara, Greg...

Nation Mexican 'Ice' Replaces Home-Cooked Meth in U.S. by Howard Berkes    Amy Walters, NPR Police lay out the evidence seized during a day-long effort to identify a meth dealer. A half-pound of meth was confiscated, and about $6,000 in cash was found.       Hear More in This Series April 3, 2007 Meth Production Moves to Mexico April 3, 2007 Plunge in Meth Labs Paves Way for Potent Import       INTERACTIVE: Trace How Illegal Drugs Reach the United States Lindsay Mangum, NPR         Lindsay Mangum, NPR       Amy Walters, NPR...

In the largest cash seizure in Mexican history, authorities confiscated $206 million in U.S. currency from a band of methamphetamine producers headquartered in a ritzy neighborhood here, officials said today. Two of the seven people arrested at the home were Chinese, and authorities said the bust hinted at the vast scope of an illegal drug trade that links Mexico to Asia. ... Mexican drug trafficking organizations have become increasing important in the wholesale and retail trade in methamphetamines in the United States because American authorities have placed tougher controls on the sale of the chemicals used to produce the highly...

Police have found $206 million in cash, belonging to drug smugglers who imported chemicals used to make methamphetamines, piled inside a mansion in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood, officials said on Friday. Police arrested seven people at the house. They found wads of hundreds of dollars stuffed in drawers, suitcases and closets around the house. They also seized six Mercedes Benz vehicles and two other cars along with seven firearms, 200,000 euros and machinery used to make tablets. ~snip~ The attorney general's office, which operates the police force that led the raid, said the money belonged to a drug gang...

A 50-year-old principal was found naked in his school office while watching gay pornography on Tuesday, according to sources. Sex toys were found nearby, the sources added. Police said John Acerra was a longtime teacher and principal in the Bethlehem Area School District, but was also allegedly selling crystal meth out of his school office. Acerra, of Allentown, was the principal of Nitschmann Middle School in Bethlehem, and was arrested minutes after he arranged to sell the notoriously addictive drug to a police informant, according to investigators. Police arrived and found meth and drug paraphernalia on his desk, according to...

The principal of Nitschmann Middle School in Bethlehem sold crystal methamphetamine to police informants three times this month, once in his school office, police say. John Acerra, 50, of 832 Chestnut St., Allentown, was arrested Tuesday in his office, where police found meth on his desk, according to arrest papers filed by Bethlehem police. One police informant told officers that Acerra used and sold crystal meth for at least five months before his arrest, the papers say.Acerra faces felony charges of possession with intent to deliver meth and delivery of the drug and related charges. He is in Lehigh County...

Ted Haggard, founder and former senior pastor of New Life Church, plans to leave Colorado Springs and move to Iowa or Missouri to return to college, according to a message he e-mailed Sunday to some church members. Haggard’s family has been “offered two places” in the Midwestern states, Haggard wrote. He and his wife, Gayle, will go back to school together, but Haggard didn’t specify what college or university they would attend. “We are both planning on getting our masters in Psychology so we can work together serving others the rest of our lives,” Haggard wrote. The nationally known minister...

BONHAM — The death of 28-year-old Michael Lee Williams Saturday morning is believed by law enforcement to have been caused by electrocution from copper wires he was allegedly stealing. In a Fannin County Sheriff’s Office report by Investigator Wayne Walker, he said that law enforcement and ambulance service were called to Private Road 155, off FM 1550, and what was originally called in was a four-wheeler accident. Mr. Williams had already been taken to Red River Regional Medical Center in Bonham, and Walker began interviewing others still at the scene. A 30-year-old woman said she and Mr. Williams had been...

Sex, meth and Internet spark new AIDS fears Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:54 PM ET By Matthew Verrinder NEW YORK (Reuters) - An hour after speaking at a Crystal Meth Anonymous meeting about the benefits of sobriety to dozens of other recovering addicts, Charlie was alone in his Chelsea apartment, logged onto the Web site Adam4Adam.com. He cruised the site's profiles of muscular gay men who want to meet for sex while high on methamphetamine, and found his match: a 50-year-old man from Manhattan's Upper East Side who liked to "slam" the drug, or inject it directly into the bloodstream....

... Windsor said he took an ax from a closet and hit her at least five times until the ax stuck in her head. He stopped because he couldn't remove the ax. The coroner's office could not remove the ax and when the body was X-rayed it was embedded down to near the victim's jaw, according to police. ...

Like men featured in the movie Meth, Sumlin embraced the drug because urban, gay partiers often use it as an intoxicant and aphrodisiac of choice. Now crystal meth is cutting a destructive swath through another subculture: Gay men drawn to sex with casual, multiple partners. Since the late 1990s, HIV infection has risen among white and Hispanic gay men while staying flat or dropping among other groups. "The good news is maybe about 80 percent of gay men still haven't experimented with this," Liberti says. "Those who have, their lives have spiraled down in a very serious way. It's very...