Law enforcement officials in Payne County served 64 arrest warrants to people who bought more pseudoephedrine than the law allows.
“Pseudoephedrine is key ingredient in methamphetamines,” said Norman McNickle, chief of the Stillwater Police Department.
Medically, pseudoephedrine relieves nasal and sinus congestion, according to Medline Plus.
But medical use was screened out as a possibility before the warrants were issued, McNickle said.
“Customers are limited to 9 grams of pseudoephedrine in a one month period without a prescription,” Mark Woodward, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, said in a Nov. 16 press release.
Oklahoma tracks people who try to buy more than the law allows, Woodward said. Many meth cooks use fake identification cards to buy it, he said.
Officials found at least one active meth lab before 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Capt. Randy Dickerson of the Stillwater Police Department, said.
Payne County Sheriff’s, Stillwater Police, Perkins Police, Cushing Police and OSU Police departments and the Iowa Tribal Police began helping the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics serve the warrants Monday and will continue today, according to a press release from the Stillwater Police Department.
“The arresting continues and likely will carry on throughout the day and into the following days,” Dickerson said in an e-mail this morning.
The defendants will face either a misdemeanor charge from buying more than 9 grams of pseudoephedrine or a felony charge for buying a controlled substance with intent to manufacture, according to the press release.
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