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.

February 21, 2007

In Texas - A federal grand jury returned indictments against 22 people for allegedly distributing Meth for a large drug ring.  Among the 22 defendants are two men – described by investigators say as two of the larger drug dealers in the area - their mother, father, and sister for conspiracy and distribution of both Meth and cocaine. The family members were also all indicted on a count of money laundering conspiracy. One brother was indicted on three counts of firearm charges and the father faces one firearm count. There are still 11 people who have been indicted but not apprehended.

In Montana - A California woman who admitted she distributed Meth in Montana was sentenced to 3½ years in federal prison. During the sentencing hearing, the woman apologized and asked forgiveness. She pleaded guilty in November to possession with intent to distribute for selling Meth.  Law enforcement used a confidential informant to buy Meth from her, and later she admitted to officers that she distributed Meth and had bought two-ounces for resale.

In Virginia - Seven people were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a Meth and cocaine distribution ring.  They were among 150 people arrested on state and federal charges last June following a two-year investigation of a ring that imported and resold Meth and cocaine from Mexico.  One of those sentenced was a 43-year-old man from Mexico.  He received 12 years and two months in prison in exchange for a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute Meth and distribution of Meth.  He supplied the drugs to more than 20 other dealers. The U.S. attorney's office presented evidence that members of the ring brought more than 50 pounds of Meth and nearly 4 kilograms of cocaine into the area.

In Florida – A Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations unit raided a Meth lab after receiving a number of complaints.  A married couple, a 32-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, were arrested and charged with trafficking and manufacture of Meth.  In October 2005, the sheriff’s office dismantled a Meth lab at the same address operated by the same couple.  Both suspects were posting bond to get out of jail after this latest arrest.

In Arizona - In an effort to stop Meth use, Arizona’s Governor wants the Bush administration to stop shipments of pseudoephedrine coming into California ports.  The governor said large quantities of the legal drug arrive at U.S. ports and then are transported to Meth labs in Mexico where it is cooked into Meth.  The Meth is then moved back to the U.S. through border states.  The governor wrote to U.S Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking the administration look into legal, regulatory and procedural ways to limit the large quantities of pseudoephedrine arriving in America’s ports from China and India.

In Arizona – A 40-year-old woman pled guilty to one count of mail theft and one count of possessing Meth with intent to distribute.  She admitted that during her 2005 stint as a letter carrier with the post office, she failed to deliver over 200 pieces of mail to 159 people, including a social security card and several credit card solicitations.  Once, in October 2005, she took 76 pieces of mail to her home and threw it out in her trashcan.  After that, she took approximately 148 additional pieces of mail and also threw them away.  The mail was later found when police served a search warrant on her home.  Besides the missing mail, officers found 5.8 grams of Meth divided up in baggies tucked inside a lunchbox.  She has been sentenced to one year in jail, and is required to perform 100 hours of community service during three years of supervised release. 

In Kentucky - Police busted a Meth lab - the second time police officers shut down an active lab at the same address since November.  Police say they found the 47-year-old man, owner of the garage housing the Meth lab, and a 49-year-old man along with an active Meth lab and some finished Meth.  The homeowner has previous arrests on his record for manufacturing Meth.  Both men now face four counts of manufacturing and possessing Meth. 

In Washington - A suspected child molester and Meth dealer was rearrested after jumping bail and hiding out for 24 hours.  Police found the 60-year-old man in a motel, where he checked in under a fake name.  He is accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl, the daughter of an acquaintance, and has a prior sex offense.  Police say he was also selling Meth and dealing stolen goods.

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