10 June 2016 – Author: Laura Walters – Source: stuff.co.nz Houses contaminated through the cooking or smoking of methamphetamine is a growing issue in New Zealand. Just one session smoking the Class A drug, also known as P or Ice, could be enough to produce a positive test result. However lack of national testing standards […]
9 August 2016 – Author: Robyn Yousef – Source: NZ Herald Robyn Yousef: ‘What makes anybody think it’s okay to do this?’ Methamphetamine smokers are wreaking havoc in our housing rental market. Along with a major shortage of properties, the number of properties needing decontamination this year is skyrocketing and the clean-up issue has created […]
21 July 2016 – Author: Georgia Forrester – Source: stuff.co.nz The testing for methamphetamine in Manawatu homes has doubled for at least one agency in the past two years. NZ House Surveys has seen requests for inspections spike amid growing awareness and concern for illnesses related the manufacture of the drug. . Founder Jeff Twigge said more than […]
12 July 2016 – Author: Kristin Edge – Source: NZ Herald Suspicious behaviour at a coastal holiday home has led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab in Northland. Emergency services were called to the house in Dolphin Place, on the Tutukaka Coast, about 2pm on Sunday. A neighbour said they arrived home to a police […]
30 May 2016 – Author: Selina Powell – Source: stuff.co.nz The sale of a Housing New Zealand property is in limbo over concerns it has been contaminated with methamphetamine. Viewings of the four-bedroom house in Blenheim were suspended last Tuesday after a prospective buyer claimed the house was contaminated with meth. A Housing New Zealand spokeswoman […]
21 July 2016 – Source: NZ Herald A man is in a serious condition in Tauranga Hospital following a raid on a suspected methamphetamine lab. Police this morning located a suspected clan lab on Walker Road East, between Tauranga and Katikati. Police said it was believed the address had been used for the manufacture of […]
28 July 2016 – Author: Imran Ali – Source: NZ Herald A Northlander arrested during a major drug bust told a jury he had no knowledge methamphetamine was being manufactured at a rural property despite driving to and from the house with the supervisor of the illegal operation. Kiata Sonny Pene denied one charge of […]
28 May 2016 – Author: Kathleen Noonan – Source: The Courier Mail WHAT does meth in the suburbs look like? Right now, I can tell you what it sounds like. Take a steer, teach it to swear profusely and savagely, tie it up, then torture it and listen. Like that. What does meth look like? […]
30 March 2016 – Author: Rob Kidd – Source: NZ Herald It’s not easy funding a wedding. Most people scrimp, save or borrow; but Scott Ian McArthur decided to raise the cash by cooking meth. The 42-year-old avoided a prison term by the narrowest of margins in Auckland District Court last week when he was […]
16 June 2013 – Source: news.com.au FORMER “meth labs” are being sold and rented to families across New South Wales, with no legal requirement for real estate agents to disclose the property was once used to produce illegal drugs. Unlike laws which require agents to disclose any “material facts” relating to a suspicious death at […]
4 June 2014 – Author: Stephen Smith – Source: sourceable.net All around the world, a growing phenomenon of using private and often rented accommodation as laboratories for producing methamphetamine is causing enormous headaches for property owners and neighbours and spawning a new wave in construction related litigation. Methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, P or […]
20 May 2015 – Author: Alyse Edwards – Source: ABC News Cleaning up meth labs set up in public housing has cost the Queensland Government more than $600,000 in the past three years. Queensland has the dubious honour of leading the nation in methamphetamine production, with more clandestine drug laboratories uncovered each year than anywhere else […]
11 June 2016 – Author: Katherine Powley – Source: Herald Sun A SIX-year-old boy was found with the same levels of methamphetamine in his system as an adult drug abuser after his family unwittingly bought a house that had been used as an ice drug lab. The shocking case has led to warnings for prospective homeowners and […]
13 October 2015 – Author: Rebecca Puddy – Source: The Australian It is only a matter of time before a child dies in a house that was once used as a meth lab, clean-up companies have warned. Steamatic national marketing director Mark Silveira said business was booming for cleaning companies across the nation after a rise in […]
Mark talks to Miles Stratford from Meth Solutions Released 09 June 2016 Meth has become a major problem in New Zealand for many years with both physical and emotional harm. In this itunes podcast, Mark and Miles discuss the following: Manufacturing in the home. The bigger the test number the more likely it’s been manufactured in […]
30 April 2016 – Author: Adele Redmond – Source: stuff.co.nz The tell-tale signs of a meth lab never change. Stained walls and door frames, trash overflowing with pill packets, blackened windows and CCTV-style security are usually evidence that an ordinary house harbours illegal secrets. MethScreen’s Kevin says New Zealand’s most dangerous drug is often an invisible one. Kevin and partner Tracey have been testing South Island […]
22 March 2016 – Source: NZ Herald Nearly 280 state houses tested positive for meth contamination in the nine months to December, Housing New Zealand confirmed last week. It spent about $12 million to $13 million a year on remedial work. It’s feared P-riddled homes could rival NZ’s leaky homes disaster, with thousands thought to […]
20 September 2015 – Author: Ava Benny-Morrison – Source: Sydney Morning Herald A septic tank had to be dug up, bedrooms gutted, land decontaminated and surfaces scrubbed. Making the house, north of Sydney, habitable again after it was used for an elaborate meth lab was no small or cheap feat. “That job was $250,000 by the […]
12 September 2015 – Author: John McCrone – Source: stuff.co.nz Could a tenth of all New Zealand motel rooms now be toxic from P smoking? Is every property investor at risk of huge methamphetamine clean-up bills? JOHN McCRONE reports on the growing meth decontamination industry. Marketing an ex-meth house has its problems. How do […]
13 June 2015 – Author: Talia Shadwell – Source: stuff.co.nz Holiday-makers from hell are trawling popular accommodation booking websites to find sites to house their mobile P-labs – coating walls and carpets in noxious chemicals that can cost up to $20,000-$50,000 range to strip and decontaminate. Kiwis baches are being contaminated by strangers’ makeshift methamphetamine […]