Meth Lab Bust -- Omen Of Future

According to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, recent arrests for methamphetamine production and trafficking are the future of Anderson County, not the past.

"Methamphetamine is our No. 1 drug problem in the Upstate," said Mike Miller, director of the Anderson-Oconee Regional Forensics Laboratory. "Sixty-nine percent of my case load is methamphetamine .. We are the final East Coast version of every other state in the country."

In his 11th year as a law enforcement officer, Mr. Miller said he has been at 572 clandestine meth lab busts, predominantly in Anderson and Oconee counties. Across the state, he said, Anderson ranks No. 1 in the number of meth labs seized.

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