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US NE: Drugs Start Out in Mexico, Distributed From Omaha

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Pubdate: Sun, 08 Nov 2009
Source: Omaha World-Herald (NE)
Copyright: 2009 Omaha World-Herald Company
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Website: http://www.omaha.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/320
Author: Lynn Safranek
Note: author is a World-Herald Staff Writer
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/area/Mexico (Mexico)

DRUGS START OUT IN MEXICO, DISTRIBUTED FROM OMAHA

Police suspect that other drug rings in Omaha deal in pounds of methamphetamine, as the dealers in Operation Red Ice did.

Most narcotics investigations focus on the highly addictive crystal methamphetamine, the purer form of the drug, because it wreaks such devastation on the community and can be found in any part of the city, said Officer Edith Andersen, a detective in the narcotics unit who led Operation Red Ice.

Through countless interviews with drug dealers and drug users, investigators know how drug rings work.

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