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National Medical Center in Washington.
According to a study by the El Paso Intelligence Center, more than 6,000 children have been involved in meth-lab related incidents from 2000 to 2002. In that same period, 52 have been injured, and five have died.
Such incidents have prompted legislative proposals to crack down on the manufacturing and abuse of methamphetamine, The General Assembly is considering bills to control the ingredients used to make meth; raise the penalties for manufacturing the drug; and make it a separate crime to manufacture meth in the presence of a child.
Sen. Mark Obenshain, RHarrisonburg, is a driving force behind such proposals.
Sheriff Carter called Landry’s operation a “mom-andpop lab.” Such clandestine laboratories are a growing problem across the country. Police have seized more labs in the past two years than they did in the previous six years combined.
Clandestine labs are small and mobile, and operators can easily find on the Internet recipes for making meth.
Landry’s lab was the first to be seized by the Northwest Task Force. Up to that point, the problem in Western Virginia had been the trafficking of meth through Harrisonburg, Sheriff Carter said.
The Interstate 81 corridor has been considered an outlet
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