LODI -- Lodi police found more than a pound of methamphetamine and enough chemicals to make up to 25 pounds more at a home in Lodi on Wednesday after receiving an anonymous tip of a person buying chemicals used to make the drug. The drug-lab bust in the 11500 block of North DeVries Road resulted in six arrests. The 1-year-old son of one of those arrested was taken into protective custody. If sold on the street in eighth-ounce bindles, known as "eight balls," 25 pounds of methamphetamine is worth $350,000, said Detective Fernando Martinez of the Lodi Police Department. [continues 242 words]
Drug Treatments To Be Set Up San Joaquin County is in line to receive almost $1 million in startup money to implement Proposition 36, the state proposition passed in November which calls for treatment instead of jail time for nonviolent drug-possession offenders. The cash is part of an initial $58.78 million in startup money distributed across the state. An additional $120 million will be set aside annually for the next five years for drug-treatment services beginning this fiscal year. [continues 271 words]
More Than 400 Plants Seized From Delta Lands Eager hands ripped immature crops out of San Joaquin County fields Wednesday. But though the eventual harvest would have been worth more than gold, don't expect growers to report the missing plants to authorities. In fact, it was police doing the taking. The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, a state Department of Justice program that includes the National Guard and California Highway Patrol, was in the Delta lands along Highway 12 west of Interstate 5, confiscating more than 400 plants from a number of sites. [continues 439 words]
