The CDC reports psychostimulants surpassed opioids as the leading cause of overdose deaths in Iowa in 2024 and have remained there. Iowa Health and Human Services says the majority of those deaths involve methamphetamine. Susan Vileta of the Johnson County Public...
A Delaware County man is sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for going out of the country to get the ingredients to make meth. Forty-two-year-old Roger Hettinger of Manchester pleaded guilty in May to importation of pseudoepherine, possession of illegal...
A man who caught his Dubuque residence on fire while trying to make methamphetamine will spend nearly 20 years in prison. Forty-seven-year-old Cory Cole admitted to cooking meth at his house on May 30th of 2013 and said the meth lab caught the house on fire. Two other...
Two people have been sentenced to prison for their roles in distributing methamphetamine in Washington County. Forty-six-year-old Kurt Brookhart was sentenced to just over nine years in prison and 30-year-old Nahida Bucheit was sentenced to nearly six years in prison...
Three men are facing prison time in two cases involving the distribution of methamphetamine. Robert Skarin and William Meisner, who are both 53 and from Sioux City, pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to deliver meth. Both men admitted to traveling to Omaha,...
