Meth labs: From small problem to big business
By Steve Bauer
Sunday March 19, 2006
Darrell Hoemann
Champaign County Sheriff's deputy Sgt. Dan Coile, an undercover agent, demonstrates how anhydrous ammonia can be stolen for the production of methamphetamine.
CHARLESTON – Drug investigators think tougher laws already might be affecting the way illegal methamphetamine is made, with fewer but possibly larger home meth labs.
Sgt. Mark Peyton, an Illinois State Police supervisor for the multiagency East Central Illinois Task Force, credited success drug investigators had last year to tougher laws regarding pseudoephedrine, cooperation from local merchants and law enforcement and greater awareness by citizens of the dangers of meth and meth labs.
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