A nine-year prison sentence was handed down on Thursday in Marshall County Superior Court for a Bremen man accused of cooking methamphetamine.
31-year-old Jerald Standifer received the sentence after being arrested in October of 2014. Officers allegedly located two one-pot meth labs in a car Standifer was driving on U.S. 31 near U.S. 30. Three others were arrested in the incident.
A Plymouth man has been sentenced to prison time for selling methamphetamine.
28-year-old Anthony Porter was arrested after a string of incidents in 2014 where he allegedly purchased products that include pseudoephedrine, a base ingredient of meth.
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Now that snow from the winter season is melting, the Starke County Sheriff’s Department is reminding residents of increased drug visibility.
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Indiana State Police have made an arrest after allegedly finding a one pot methamphetamine lab in a Warsaw woman’s truck.
The incident occurred last Saturday when 32-year-old Janet Combs was stopped by state police on US 30 near Parker Street in Warsaw. Combs had allegedly run a traffic light. Authorities said she was showing signs of abnormal behavior and alcohol impairment.
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Four individuals were arrested in Marshall County on Thursday, and it took a bit of cooperation through multiple law enforcement agencies to make it happen.
According to a press release from the Indiana State Police, a saturation patrol was being conducted in Marshall County on Thursday of last week. The effort was made due to the areas’ ongoing methamphetamine problem. Multiple traffic stops were conducted in Plymouth and the surrounding areas according to the report.
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Suspicious activity at the CVS in Culver led Indiana State Police to assist local police.
Officers responded January 21st around 1 p.m. to the area of East Lake Shore Drive and Coolidge Street in Culver.
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The numbers may change slightly, but the message is still the same according to Purdue Extension.
A recently issued report ranked Starke County first in the state of Indiana in meth lab seizures. A team of researchers used population data to determine Starke County’s population, but in writing the report transposed the first two numbers – making the county’s population 32, 197 instead of the more accurate 23,197.
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A new report says that while seizures of meth labs are up in Indiana, the number of labs is also up in the state.
The publication from Purdue Extension says Indiana saw nearly 1,800 meth lab seizures in 2013, the highest of any state in the country. Data supplied in the report describes the trends in illegal drug use in rural areas and proposes a few solutions to the problem.
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