If you build it, Wayne will bust it

In Blottered's attempt to provide the best rural meth lab coverage on the Net, let it be known that in North Dakota, Walsh County leads the state in the number of meth lab busts this year so far, displacing last year's winner, Williams County. When commenting on the drop in lab busts from 2003 to 2004, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said, "It's too early to tell, but we must be doing something right."

2004
Williams County: 64
Walsh County: 47
Total: 255

2005 (as of June 2005)
Walsh County: 33
Williams County: 24
Total: 141

Seeing as the 2005 stats are the halfway mark, this year could bring about a new level of scarcity for the drug in North Dakota. Stock up now.