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.

July 26, 2007

In Tennessee – When sheriff's authorities arrived at home to investigate a tip, chemical odors wafted in the air outside.  A woman answered the deputies’ knock on the door, accompanied by her 2-year-old child.  The officers had interrupted the woman in the middle of cooking Meth, with her child by her side.  Deputies say they found Meth cooking on the back porch, along with other items associated with manufacturing.  The toddler was put into state care; the woman faces felony child abuse charges and a variety of drug-related charges.

In Pennsylvania - Police seized equipment and materials for a portable Meth lab from a motel room, but said they found no evidence the room itself had been used to manufacture Meth.  A 40-year-old man from North Carolina was arrested on felony charges. 

In Florida – Sheriff’s deputies wrapped up a two-week long surveillance on a suspected home Meth manufacturing operation when they served a search warrant.  They glanced into a car parked in the driveway and saw a mobile Meth lab in plain sight.  During the search they also found approximately 3.5 to 4 grams of finished Meth.  Officers arrested a 28-year-old man and charged him with Meth manufacturing.

In Nebraska - A 23-year-old man accused of swallowing an eighth of an ounce of Meth to prevent police from seized it pleaded no contest to drug charges including attempted Meth possession with intent to distribute.  He was a passenger in a car police were searching when they found suspected Meth in his wallet.  According to an affidavit, the man told officers he was getting ill. He was taken to a hospital emergency room, where he vomited up two baggies and the Meth.  He will be sentenced in September. 

In Arkansas - Sheriff’s officers found an abandoned car that turned out to be a mobile Meth lab.  They investigated down a trail and found house, which turned out to belong to the same man as the car was registered to.  They received permission over the phone to search the property and found drug paraphernalia consistent with Meth use. Officers were able to lift fingerprints from the car; once the results are back, a warrant for manufacturing Meth will be released.

In Minnesota - Investigators arrested five people after an investigation into Meth sales.  The suspects, three women ages 46, 27 and 18, and two men, 34 and 22, face possible charges for Meth possession or conspiracy to sell Meth.

In Indiana - Sheriff's deputies discovered at two working Meth labs on one property.  one was inside a house and the other in the garage, and both were in use at the time of the bust.  Deputies also found a large amount of Meth manufacturing ingredients at another site a few blocks away.  Three suspects – two men ages 31 and 28 and a 25-year-old woman – were arrested.

In California – Thieves are employing the ‘crash and grab’ style of burglary to get their hands on pseudoephedrine.  Police in one town reported at least two occurrences during the course of one night of cars crashing into pharmacies and the occupants stealing cold medicine.  Officers responding to a call from an alarm company to investigate an alert at 3:30AM found a car inside the pharmacy and a large quantity of the pseudoephedrine-based medication stolen.  The car had earlier been reported stolen.  A second alarm brought investigators to a different pharmacy, where they found the front doors smashed and the store ransacked. A large quantity of drugs was missing from the pharmacy.  Authorities are not sure if the two incidents were directly related or if different people were responsible for each. This is at least the third time in July when thieves crashed a stolen car through the doors of pharmacies and then stole cold medicine.

In Kansas - A 36-year-old man faces three federal counts of dealing Meth after being accused last year.  Prosecutors say the defendant faces sentences of ten-years to life in prison and a maximum fine of $4 million on one count and five- to 40-years and a two million-dollar fine on each of the other counts.

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