Highly Addictive, Dangerous-To-Make Drug on Radar of the Law Lt. Lachlan MacNeish hopes he'll never see another meth lab in his life. "If I could wake up and never have to go to another one, I'd be happy," said MacNeish, commander of the Emergency Response Team with the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office. While meth labs aren't common in the area, chances are MacNeish will have to deal with another one sooner or later. In a presentation to county commissioners last week, MacNeish and others said meth is here in Southeastern North Carolina, even if manufacturing isn't common. MacNeish said last year local authorities confiscated more than 453 grams of meth in New Hanover County, with a street value exceeding $45,000. [continues 564 words]
Law enforcement officers slog through waist deep water, slashing through underbrush with machetes. Eventually they stumble on what they've been searching for: a field of thousands of marijuana plants, the home of someone's intricate drug production operation. But this isn't South America. It's Onslow County. On Thursday, county law enforcement officials cut down about 11,000 marijuana plants that were growing in a field in the Back Swamp area near the Duplin County border. Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said his department has never before captured so much weed at once. [continues 331 words]
Law enforcement officers slog through waist deep water, slashing through underbrush with machetes. Eventually they stumble on what they've been searching for: a field of thousands of marijuana plants, the home of someone's intricate drug production operation. But this isn't South America. It's Onslow County. On Thursday, county law enforcement officials cut down about 11,000 marijuana plants that were growing in a field in the Back Swamp area near the Duplin County border. Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said his department has never before captured so much weed at once. [continues 330 words]
