Missouri Drug Roundup Nets 68 Defendants

Regional Drug Roundup Nets 68 Defendants Involving Record Purchases of 141,000 Pseudoephedrine Pills “Law enforcement determined that one way to approach the methamphetamine problem plaguing our communities is to aggressively prosecute those individuals who facilitate the production of methamphetamine by providing pseudoephedrine to the “cooks,” said Hanaway. St. Louis, MO: These indictments were announced at a press conference earlier today in St. Louis. United States Attorney Catherine Hanaway and St. Louis County Police Chief Jerry Lee were joined by law enforcement officials from multiple area jurisdictions. Over the past several months, federal grand juries in the Eastern District of Missouri have indicted 68 defendants in eight different cases, on charges of possession of pseudoephedrine, knowing it would be used to... [read full story]