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.

Oct. 29, 2007

In North Carolina - Police evacuated 12 people from an apartment complex after a tip led to the discovery of a Meth lab in one unit.   Investigators searched one of the apartments and found the materials for Meth manufacturing, as well as Meth recipes and some LSD.  The neighboring residents were evacuated as a precaution while the lab was closed down.  Two men, 28- and 26-years-old, were arrested on multiple Meth and other charges.

In Louisiana - An employee at a discount store called police after he saw a man buying material used to make Meth.  Officers stopped the suspect, 32-years-old, as he left the store’s parking lot. Inside the car, police found antifreeze, eight packages of 1,000-count matches and 20 tablets of pseudoephedrine.  The officers discovered the man had recently been stopped and questioned by police at a suspected Meth lab that had been under surveillance since neighbors complained of a foul odor.  After arresting the suspect, officers went to the suspicious trailer home and immediately noticed a strong chemical smell. They saw a beaker containing an unknown liquid boiling on a hot plate in the front yard. Another beaker contained a red liquid. A 31-year-old man inside the trailer was arrested. Both men have prior drug arrests, and now face charges of running a Meth lab. 

In North Carolina – Three people were sentenced to federal prison for possessing pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture Meth, and for conspiring to make and distribute Meth. A 30-year-old man was sentenced to 262 months (nearly 22-years), a 35-year-old man was sentenced to ten years, and a 20-year-old woman received a 30-month sentence.  The trio was stopped in a National Forest in July, 2006.  During a search of their vehicle, officials found a large number of pseudoephedrine tablets and other items for making Meth.  The defendants were returning to the area to make their second batch of Meth when they were caught.  Authorities found 970-grams of Meth sludge in and among multiple precursor chemicals at the site.  All three defendants pleaded guilty to the Meth manufacturing charges.

In Kansas – A chemical cloud state police attribute to a mobile Meth lab on the Interstate is blamed for making drivers sick. Witnesses said the fumes came from the back of a speeding van, trailing behind it so much smoke, it forced drivers who went through it to pull over.  One man went to the emergency room after driving through what he called a dense chemical cloud, suffering symptoms severe enough to make him miss two days of work. He described the scene, "I noticed the whole back of the van. It was just billowing out of the back of the van. It was really thick. You could not see anything behind the van. It drifted into the oncoming lanes, northbound lanes, where I was going. It was like driving through real heavy fog. Traffic had to slow down."  He felt sick when he arrived at work, with a heavy feeling in his chest and a bad cough.  A woman who drove through the chemicals also ended up in the hospital, describing the same scene and saying, ”Two minutes down the road my hands start to tingle, and I have trouble breathing." 

In West Virginia - Sheriff's deputies busted a Meth lab after following up on a tip.  Deputies first arrested a 20-year-old woman after finding Meth manufacturing items – including anhydrous ammonia - in her car, along with several weapons, when they pulled her over in a routine traffic stop. That arrest led to a search warrant for a room at a motel. There, officers found a 32-year-old man who was arrested for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

In Louisiana - A man was arrested after his wife called sheriff’s deputies, reporting that she found crystal Meth on her dining room table. Her husband is charged with Meth possession, as well as possessing it in the presence of a juvenile, a weapons charge and possession of drug paraphernalia. He admitted to the Meth was his. 

In Minnesota - A search warrant at an apartment turned up about 20-grams of Meth and led to two arrests. During a search of one room, Police allegedly found about 19-grams of Meth in a discarded pair of pants, believed to belong to a 30-year-old man at the apartment.  He was arrested but not yet been charged. A police dog also indicated the presence of drugs in a safe, which contained used syringes, a digital scale and $1,500 in cash.  Investigators then reportedly found a small bag of marijuana, a tablet of suspected Ecstasy and a gram of Meth in a second room.  A 20-year-old man was also arrested; he was already facing drug charges from an earlier arrest.

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