MAPP-SD, a project of Prairie View Prevention Services, Inc., is a comprehensive Methamphetamine awareness and prevention project. 
MAPP-SD is dedicated to:
u   Increase awareness of Meth and the problems associated with its use, manufacture and distribution;
u Provide, at no cost, professional Meth awareness and prevention education to groups and organizations on a community, regional and statewide level;
u Be a no-cost, ongoing resource for South Dakota citizens to deal with issues rising from the manufacture, use and distribution of Meth.

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After a yearlong investigation, 22 people across South Dakota were arrested on felony drug distribution charges.  The Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force (including members of the FBI, DCI, police departments at Pine Ridge, Pierre, and Martin; sheriff's offices at Mellette and Bennett counties; and police for the Rosebud Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux and Lower Brule Sioux tribes) arrested 16 people on June 20 on suspicion of dealing Meth or marijuana.  Six others were arrested earlier as part of the same investigation.  Much of the alleged dealing took place on or near Indian reservations. 

As part of the investigation, over the past year undercover investigators seized about $33,000 in cash as well as $30,000 worth of Meth and $4,000 worth of marijuana that originated in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, California and Colorado. 

The latest arrests included a 38-year old and a 23-year old from Rapid City; a 26-year old from Rosebud; a 30-year old and a 52-year old from St. Francis; a 40-year old and two 37-year old from Lower Brule; two 46-year olds, a 25-year old, 23-year old, a 48-year old and a 49-year old, all of Pierre; and a 35-year old and 43-year old from Sioux Falls.  All the cases will be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The task force primarily targets drug and gang offenders who operate across state and reservation boundaries.  According to a spokesman from the FBI, the task force has been responsible for the arrests of 371 suspected dealers since its inception in June 1999.

With information from KOTA Television, Aberdeen American News, Rapid City Journal, Sioux Falls Argus Leader

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