Southeast Sun, The _Enterprise, AL_ 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1 US AL: New Meth Craze On The RiseWed, 01 Sep 2010
Source:Southeast Sun, The (Enterprise, AL) Author:Braun, Melissa Area:Alabama Lines:117 Added:09/02/2010

Though the use of lithium strips has long been used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine across the nation, Coffee County Sheriff's Department officials say it is increasing in popularity in the county.

In recent drug raids by the Coffee County Sheriff's Department and Enterprise Police Department, officers have found manufacturers using lithium strips from batteries to speed the production of methamphetamine in a sort of one-step process. The lithium, when placed in a bottle with pseudoephedrine, ammonia-nitrate and/or other chemicals, makes a fiery and gaseous reaction that quickly makes methamphetamine.

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2 US AL: My Name Is Crystal MethTue, 28 Aug 2007
Source:Southeast Sun, The (Enterprise, AL) Author:Lewis, Kim Area:Alabama Lines:267 Added:09/02/2007

Drug Controls Lives Of Local Residents

It's late afternoon and investigators have been hiding in the bushes in 100-degree weather, covered in ants, for more than 24 hours.

A bust is about to go down.

Today's target -- a suspected methamphetamine cooker who works out of a shack behind his cluttered trailer in rural Coffee County.

Informants have told authorities that meth can be bought throughout the county and investigators say it is impossible to stop the spread of meth that is ruining countless lives.

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3 US AL: Meth Compound Investigation ContinuesThu, 15 Jun 2006
Source:Southeast Sun, The (Enterprise, AL) Author:Braun, Melissa Area:Alabama Lines:160 Added:06/17/2006

Drugs, an unsolved missing person case, and bones have been key elements for success for many television series but all of these elements were also factors in a real-life Coffee County drug bust last week that remains under investigation.

Several members of the 12th Judicial Circuit Deferred Prosecution program were arrested Thursday after more than 100 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers made what is being called the biggest methamphetamine drug bust Coffee County has seen in the past 20 years.

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4 US AL: DA Wants Pretrial Diversion ProgramThu, 24 Feb 2005
Source:Southeast Sun, The (Enterprise, AL) Author:Bania, Ed Area:Alabama Lines:78 Added:02/26/2005

Twelfth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Gary McAliley is lobbying the Alabama Legislature to pass a pretrial diversion program bill for Coffee and Pike counties.

McAliley said the proposed bill is a "win-win" situation. The bill is written to make sure that victims receive restitution from the offender for damages.

The offender may also be required to attend an education program and/or counseling, learn to read and write, financially support a spouse and/or children, not use alcohol and drugs, obtain employment, and pay court costs, fines, supervision and court referral officer fees. Curfews, home detention or travel restraints may be made. "We can put them into a drug rehabilitation program and they report monthly," McAliley said.

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