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 Meth in Minnesota

 On the front lines

 Assault on the environment

 The toll mounts

 A way out

Southeast Minnesota meth lab seizures
Through March 19, 2001

19991.Aug.Zumbrota. Mobile home at park in Zumbrota.
2.Oct. 6Mower County's first know meth lab at an auto repair shop at 605 10th Dr. S.E., Austin.
20003.Feb.Mobile meth lab in Winona County. On a minimum maintenance road in Whitewater Township on Feb. 1.
4.Feb. 3One of largest meth labs ever uncovered in S.E. Minnesota at mobile home in Mazeppa.
5.Feb. 23Lab outside a boat house along the Mississippi River, across from Wabasha.
6.April 4Lab and fire at mobile home at Zumbro Ridge Estates, Rochester.
7.May 12Marion Township quonset hut lab. 2104 40th Ave. S.E.
8.May 12Lab in LeRoy.
9.July 18Lab at house at 1909 Second Ave. N.W., Austin.
10.Aug. 24Lab in camper at River Bend Campground in Lyle Township.
11.Sept. 71700 block of Marion Road S.E., Rochester, rolling meth lab.
12.Sept. 21Mobile meth lab near Eyota. In the 6000 block of Olmsted County Road 136, southeast of Eyota.
13.Sept. 27Meth dump found south of Rochester near quarry west of U.S. 63 across highway from Herring Art and Frame.
14.Oct. 6Kasson, 11 Eighth St.
15.Oct. 19Lab at 502 Seventh Ave. S.E., Austin.
16.Nov. 5Lab in in truck of car at 600 block of Second Ave. S.W., in Austin.
17.Nov. 8Lab in rural Byron. Four arrested. Lab was at 3537 110th Ave. S.W.
18.Nov. 301606 Third St. N.E. Rochester, in home and car parked nearby.
19.Dec. 5Four people, including Stewartville man, arrested for lab operating in an asphalt sealing business near La Crosse, Wis. It's the first known lab in La Crosse County.
200120.Jan. 13Lab at 1009 11th Ave. S.W. House exploded.
21.Feb. 32307 40th Ave. S.E., house, Rochester.
22.Feb. 23Farmhouse near Kasson. 1 1/2 Miles southeast of Kasson.
23.June 7Large quantities of two ingredients used in the manufacture of meth were found at a northwest Austin park. Police found hundreds of empty packs of Sudafed cold medicine and a dozen lithium batteries that had been cut open. No arrests.
24.April 23Meth dump site found in rural Rochester. 70th Ave. S.E. off 40th St.
25.April 20Meth dump site found on a remote road south of Eyota.
26.April 9A 23-year-old Rochester man is arrested for trying to steal anhydrous ammonia from Greenway Co-op along U.S. 14 East in Rochester.
27.March 19Austin police arrest a 19-year-old Austin man on suspicion of possessing meth with intent to sell. Police stopped him at Third Avenue and Sixth St. N.W. on routine traffic stop. Officers found a rock weighing 9 grams inside a speaker cover in the driver's door.

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