By LT. KIP SHUTER Public Information Officer, Warsaw Police Department An early morning traffic stop yesterday, Aug. 12, led police to an active meth lab in a north side Warsaw apartment complex. At 1:22 a.m. Wednesday morning, a midnight shift officer stopped a vehicle and observed drug paraphernalia. Information was provided to the officer on …read more.

Information from the Drug Enforcement Administration finds that clandestine drug labs have infiltrated the entire state of Indiana, as well as much of the Midwest. Although the state saw a slight decrease in the number of drug labs found over the last 3 years, overall, federal government data shows northern Indiana and southern Michigan have an especially severe …read more.

At 4:31 p.m. Sunday, April 6, a resident of Shamrock Mobile Home Park on Warsaw’s Anchorage Road, reported that her daughter found possible meth trash in a field behind the park/playground. The child located two 2-liter bottles in a field. Police arrived and located the two bottles and several more. Warsaw and Indiana State Police’s …read more.

Kosciusko County is no longer in the Top 10 counties for methamphetamine labs and it seems Indiana’s laws on purchasing pseudoephedrine may be among the crediting factors. In 2012, according to Indiana State Police, Kosciusko County shared a three-way tie for the No. 7 spot for the most methamphetamine labs found in the state. That …read more.

Two people were arrested Monday after Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Deputies discovered a meth lab inside a Leesburg home. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department drug task force officers were executing active warrants Monday morning in the 300 block of Smith Street, Leesburg, when they discovered various methamphetamine labs inside the residence.  KCSD officers were attempting to serve …read more.

Kosciusko County is now on track to be No. 5 in Indiana for the most number of methamphetamine labs this year. Indiana State Trooper Andy Cochran, who heads the ISP Meth Suppression Unit for District 24, credits law enforcement, fire officials and even medical personnel for being well trained in spotting potential meth labs. “That …read more.