{"id":78521,"date":"2016-08-01T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=78521"},"modified":"2016-08-01T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:40:18","slug":"vwpd-find-suspected-meth-at-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/08\/01\/vwpd-find-suspected-meth-at-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"VWPD find suspected meth at residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department has been getting reports of crystal meth making a comeback in the area. After investigating these reports, the police department was able to gather enough probable cause to get a search warrant for apartment at\u00a0153 Thistlewood Court.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the police department executed the search warrant and found approximately 95 dosage units of a substance believed to be crystal meth, along with a substantial amount of cash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78522\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cyrstal-meth-artwork-8-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78522\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cyrstal-meth-artwork-8-2016.jpg\" alt=\"A baggie of crystal meth looks like this. \" width=\"250\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A baggie of crystal meth looks something like this.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The suspected drugs will be sent to the Ohio Bureau of Investigation\u2019s lab for testing. Upon receipt of the BCI drug chemistry analysis, the case will be presented to the Van Wert County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, which is expected to file a charge of trafficking in methamphetamine, a Schedule II drug. The charge is a felony of the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>In years past, the police department has seen this drug take over people\u2019s lives and make a normal person violent.\u00a0Anyone with information that can help stop this drug from entering the community should call Van Wert police at 419.238.2462.<\/p>\n<p>Those who would like to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 419.238.STOP.\u00a0Crime Stoppers will also pay up to $1,000 for information about crimes of this nature and keep callers anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>When under the influence of meth, a person may any or all of the following symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased physical activity.<\/li>\n<li>Increased blood pressure and breathing rate.<\/li>\n<li>Elevated body temperature.<\/li>\n<li>Dilated pupils.<\/li>\n<li>Heavy sweating.<\/li>\n<li>Loss of appetite.<\/li>\n<li>Sleeplessness.<\/li>\n<li>Paranoia or irritability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert Police Department has been getting reports of crystal meth making a comeback in the area. After investigating these reports, the police department was able to gather enough probable cause to get a search warrant for apartment at\u00a0153 Thistlewood Court. At approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the police department executed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 12:24:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}