A 21-year-old woman has pleaded guilty after being involved in a Dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT, lab bust. Maura McFadian, 21, of Elyria, pleaded guilty last week to illegal manufacture/cultivation of drugs, illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for manufacture of drugs, endangering children and possession of drugs.

The recent scares in Columbus have caused county officials to begin asking: What do we do if krokodil ends up in Lorain county? Desomorphine, more commonly known as krokodil, is an opiate drug that a gives temporary high to users. Originally, desomorphine was created in the 1930s to be an alternate to morphine. According to […]

Two Wooster residents admitted in court to having chemicals to make meth hidden in their trunk. Dana Holliday, 26, of 311 E. South St., Apt. 203, Wooster, pleaded guilty in Wayne County Common Pleas Court to a count of illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of meth, a third-degree felony.

Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, reported in early September a noticeable spike in overdose deaths, especially among young females. Now he has the blood work in hand to confirm the causes of those deaths and others and calls overdose an “epidemic.” “It’s here. It’s real. It’s killing us. It’s in the city and out […]

The likelihood of discovering dumpsites, labs and chemicals associated with the manufacturing of methamphetamine remains higher in more rural areas of the region, despite Wednesday evening’s explosion at a Sycamore Township home. The existence of the methamphetamine industry in the region is alarming, not only because of the dangers of its highly addictive use, but […]