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.

August 6, 2007

In California - Police officers pulled over a car because the stereo system was playing at a volume exceeding the legal limit.  They discovered the driver, a 29-year-old man, had a suspended license and arrested him.  When the officers performed a routine search of the car, they came across 35-grams of crystal Meth, along with scales and more than a thousand dollars in the driver's area of the car.  The suspect now faces charges of possession and possession with intent to sell Meth, as well as his driving violations.

In West Virginia - A 46-year-old man landed back in jail after deputies alleged they found several coolers full of Meth-making materials in a house he owns.  Deputies had been monitoring the man’s activities after he bonded out of jail following an earlier arrest on charges of operating a Meth lab. 

In Ohio – One man is in custody and another is still at large after police busted a home Meth lab.  A 43-year-old was picked up at the lab location and is charged with Meth possession.  Police are still looking for a 45-year-old who is charged with Meth manufacturing.  They believe he lived in the home where the lab was discovered.  A search of the residence also turned up a shotgun, breathing masks and a collection of chemicals and drugs.

In Pennsylvania - Authorities broke up a Meth and cocaine ring when they arrested six of seven suspected drug dealers.  Police are searching for the seventh suspect, who they believe may have left the state.  The investigation, known as "Operation Speedball", began last year when an informant told authorities where they could buy large quantities of Meth.  Over the course of the investigation, the informant and undercover officers bought thousands of dollars worth of Meth and cocaine from the suspects. 

In Illinois – Firefighters found the remnants of a suspected Meth lab when they extinguished a blaze in a wooded area surrounded by cornfields. The coordinator for a drug task force examined the scene and believes the fire was started by the Meth production.  The fire burned between 1.5 and 2 acres before it was extinguished. Among the evidence officials discovered were a fire extinguisher with the lid blown off that had been used to transport anhydrous ammonia, several ether cans that had exploded and a container full of crushed pseudoephedrine.

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