by Doug Thompson | Aug 5, 2014 | Musings
The vast majority of criminal cases on the Floyd County Circuit Court docket on Tuesdays are drug prosecutions — especially highly-addictive and body-destroying crystal methamphetamine. The dangerous drug is easy to manufacture out of common household...
by Doug Thompson | Apr 7, 2011 | Featured, Musings
In what has become a weekly staple of crime news in The Floyd Press, police discovered another rolling meth lab in a traffic stop. Sheriff Shannon Zeman says the production and use of crystal methamphetamine is an “epidemic” in Floyd County. ...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 24, 2011 | News
Virginia State Trooper Woody McClanahan pulled Jamie Edward Weeks over for what looked like a routine traffic stop Wednesday morning on Virginia Route 8 at the dumpster boxes near the Montgomery County line. But the stop was anything but routine. McClanahan found...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 13, 2010 | Featured, Musings
The Floyd County Sheriff’s Department is hosting an informational meeting for parents and students at the Floyd County High School auditorium Thursday at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the growing problem with crystal methamphetamine. Crystal meth is easy to make, highly...
