He received a $7,500 bond. A pound of it sold for $14,000. The P2P method offered traffickers one huge advantage: The chemicals that could be used to make it were also used in a wide array of industriesamong them racing fuel, tanning, gold mining, perfume, and photography. The voices in his head went away. We just started seeing more and more labs springing up everywhere. The new labs werent all as enormous as the Quertaro lab that Bozenko had seen in 2011. But few people outside the DEA really understood the consequences of this shift. Meth reminds me of what alcoholics go through, Matt Scharf, the director of recovery programs at Midnight Mission, a Los Angeles treatment center, told me. Tlajomulco de Ziga lies just 15 miles south of Guadalajara, one of Mexicos largest cities, and serves as home to the citys international airport. I couldnt think.. It took me a year and a half to recover from the brain damage it had done to me, one of them said. He received a $2,500 bond. Residents knew something was going on; the smells were giving them headaches, Perez told me. But we were able to get photos of the place.. I dont know of any study comparing the behavior of usersor rats for that matteron meth made with ephedrine versus meth made with P2P. ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Multiple law enforcement agencies worked together to nab people suspected of bringing drugs into Onslow County. He received a $15,500 bond. Brian Nickolas Denton, 30, of Jacksonville, was charged with two counts felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance; two counts felony sell schedule II controlled substance; two counts felony deliver schedule II controlled substance; two counts felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver marijuana; two counts felony sell marijuana and two counts felony deliver marijuana. Meth is not responsible for these much wider social problems, of course. All rights reserved. The area has everything needed to be a center of meth manufacturing: warehouses, transportation hubs, proximity to chemists. Subscribe here. Others had lost jobs or health insurance and couldnt pay for both rent and the surgeries or medications they needed. The Columbus County Sheriffs Office, the Pender County Sheriffs Office, the Harnett County Sheriffs Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Homeland Security Investigations assisted in the operation. 30 arrested during Friday drug operation in Onslow County ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. -- Hundreds of grams of heroin, cocaine and marijuana along with more than $200,000 in cash was found inside an Onslow County home. One Indonesian suspect was shot dead while 17 others including a Nigerian were arrested during a series of police raids in Sumatra's Aceh province and the capital Jakarta in recent weeks, they said. He slept in his car and, for a while, in abandoned houses in Bakersfield. Eric Barrera is now a member of Judge Mitchells running club. He was home now, without the heroic story hed imagined for himself when he joined the Marines. Theyd scraped by until a landlord had raised their rent. Barrera had graduated from high school in 1998 and joined the Marine Corps. In the Southwest, the drug quickly became more prevalent than ever. How could this crisis emerge so quietly and remain, in many ways, invisible to most Americans? No ephedrine. Authorities also seized two cars and three handguns. Bryant, Quentin James, 30, of Maysville: Felony Possession With Intent to Manufacture, Sell, Deliver Cocaine; Misdemeanor Possession Marijuana; (2) Counts Misdemeanor Possession Drug Paraphernalia; Driving While License Revoked.