Methamphetamine: The Criminals

Some enforcement results on the War Against Methamphetamine: The Unnecessary Epidemic.

Chinese drug lord Zhuang Chucheng (2nd-L) stands for trial at the Intermediate People’s Court of Shenzhen in south China’s Guangdong province June 22, 2005. Zhuang was sentenced to death and executed Wednesday for making and selling huge quantities of the drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, known as ‘ice’. Between August 1996 and July 2000, Zhuang’s ring manufactured 31.125 tons of solid and liquefied ‘ice’ in the south of China, local media reported.

Thailand’s Public Health Minister Suchai Charoenrattanakul holds a bag of methamphetamine pills during a ceremony to destroy more than 2,700 million baht ($65.55 million) worth of narcotics in Ayutthaya province, nearly 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, June 24, 2005. About 2,264 kg (4991 lbs) of drugs were destroyed. More than half were methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin, and raw opium. Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra launched his government’s third war on drugs in April 2005, vowing to wipe out the drug trade.

And on the local front:

Man Sold Iodine From Tack And Feed Shop In Fountain

The first man convicted under a Colorado law targeting suppliers of materials used to make methamphetamine is sentenced to probation.

62-year-old Nneil Cizek sold iodine in large quantities from his shop, Cherokee Tack and Feed, in Fountain.

Sales from Cizek’s shop cost up to four times the going rate and prosecutors said he made $10,000 $30,000 dollars a month on the iodine sales.

Receipts from iodine purchased at his shop turned up at more than 20 area meth labs.

Drug enforcement agency agents had even warned Cizek about the law after discovering he was selling such large quantities.

More precursor chemicals to methamphetamine stopped equals less potent and less quantities of Meth on the street.

Congrats to the many law enforcement officers in many countries who are working on The Unnecessary Epidemic.