Crystal Meth

A father in North Carolina took his wrath out on an employee at a local McDonalds for allegedly selling his son methamphetamine, according to a video of the incident.

Under pressure from Catholic leaders to put an end to a spate of extrajudicial killings against suspected drug criminals, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte insisted that priests and bishops should “use shabu,” the local name for crystal methamphetamine, to “understand” how devastating it is to communities.

Federal authorities seized nearly $7 million in crystal methamphetamine at two international border bridges in south Texas in one week.

Federal officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized over $2.5 million in crystal meth and cocaine at the Texas border with Mexico in Laredo. The seizures took place in three separate incidents over a two-day period.

A mother with a newborn baby in Bonner County, Idaho, was detained and accused of exposing her infant to the dangerous methamphetamine drug via her breast milk, a local newspaper reports.

Police in Mankato, Minnesota, have arrested an area business owner for allegedly paying his employees with methamphetamine, instead of money.

Four men living in Utah have been arrested and charged with gang raping and sodomizing a nine-year-old girl while the child’s mother smoked meth in the next room on Easter Day this year.

Andrew Getty, the grandson of billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, died from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage with a toxic dose of methamphetamine in his system, according to an autopsy.

Early this week, Mexican authorities took possession of an unmanned aerial vehicle that crash-landed on the Mexican side of the U.S. border near San Ysidro, California. The drone was reportedly carrying crystal meth and was used to smuggle the drugs into the U.S.