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Meth lab busted in Lent Township homeBy Barbara Brown Chisago County sheriffís deputies searched a house on a rural Lent Township road Saturday and Sunday and removed materials consistent with a methamphetamine lab, said Sheriffís Office Sgt. Bob Shoemaker. Shoemaker said no one was at home at the time the warrant was executed on the home just west of County Road 77. He said the remnants left in the house were consistent with an anhydrous ammonia type of methamphetamine style cooking set-up. No one had been charged in the production of the drug as of Tuesday afternoon and the investigation is continuing, Shoemaker said. Methamphetamine is a stimulant that releases dopamine in humans. It is highly addictive and causes increased heart rate and blood pressure and can cause irreversible damage to blood vessels in the brain producing strokes, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse from the National Institutes of Health. Central nervous system effects include wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, hyperthermia, and euphoria. Irritability, insomnia, confusion, tremors, convulsions, anxiety, paranoia, and aggressiveness also are caused by methamphetamine use. Hyperthermia and convulsions can result in death. Officers from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Pine County Sheriffís Office and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Shoemaker said manufacture of methamphetamine had been happening for the past few years in Chisago County and surrounding areas. ©ECM Post Review |