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Task force briefing: Law enforcement sees larger meth shipments, occasional fentanyl-laced meth
Summary
Sergeant Luke Hendrickson told the workgroup that local enforcement is seeing larger meth quantities (pounds) likely coming from external "super labs," noted occasional fentanyl detected in meth, and described differences between Duluth and the rural range while sharing recent overdose counts for the Duluth area.
Sergeant Luke Hendrickson of the Lake Superior task force briefed the Northern St. Louis County workgroup on recent regional drug trends, saying law enforcement in the Iron Range has increasingly focused on methamphetamine cases and seizures involving larger quantities than a decade earlier.
"The last lab that I dealt with here was 2017," Hendrickson said, describing a shift from local small labs to much larger production and distribution chains he attributed largely to cartel-run operations and…
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