A police search of the halls and parking lots at Twin Lakes High School turned up nothing Wednesday. And that's a good thing say both police and school administrators of the random sweep for drugs.

"I look at it as a positive," said Monticello Police Chief Jim Reynolds, whose department partnered with law enforcement agencies from White, Carroll and Cass counties to perform the searches. "At least they're not bringing it to school, as far as we can tell."

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A total of 38 meth labs were taken down last year in the Lafayette district, which includes White County.

Although the Indiana State Police report that statewide they dismantled fewer methamphetamine labs in 2006 than they did the previous year, White County remains an exception going from five labs in 2005, to 11 in 2006.

State police say that doesn't necessarily mean that manufacturing of the drug has grown - just that more labs are being reported.

"Out of the 11 meth labs that were found in White County, probably six or seven were active," said Trooper Jerry Holeman, Methamphetamine Suppression Officer for the Lafayette district. "The others were either what we call dump sites, which is basically trash from a lab.

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