A routine search of a database that tracks purchases of pills containing pseudoephedrine led to the arrest of two suspects in Franklin County this week.

BISMARCK, Mo. (AP) — A 22-year-old eastern Missouri man is badly burned, and may face criminal charges, after a fire at his apartment was blamed on a methamphetamine lab.

A Washington man, described as the third suspect believed to have been involved with an active methamphetamine lab in southern Franklin County, is in custody after a four-plus-hour search took place Monday morning that caused Lonedell School on Highway FF in southeast Franklin County to be locked down as a precaution.

A Washington man is in custody after a four-hour search took place Monday morning that caused Lonedell School on Highway FF in southeast Franklin County to be locked down as a precaution.

Two people wanted on outstanding felony warrants were captured Wednesday night at a home south of Beaufort, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office reported.

The final defendant in a large-scale methamphetamine conspiracy was sentenced last week in federal court.

All of the pseudoephedrine used in methamphetamine labs seized in Franklin County last year came from areas that haven’t adopted prescription laws, according to the county’s chief narcotics officer.

The final defendant in a large-scale methamphetamine conspiracy was sentenced this week in federal court.

A Franklin County man with a long history of arrests and charges over a number of years will serve almost 12 years in federal prison.

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Drug task force officers arrested a Franklin County man this week after a federal grand jury handed up a multi-count felony indictment against him.

A man was arrested for suspected arson early Saturday after a fire at a Gerald mobile home.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say two women aboard a commercial shuttle van in Arizona have been arrested after Border Patrol agents found methamphetamine hidden in two buckets of chicken.

Charges are pending through the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's Office after a methamphetamine lab allegedly exploded inside a Sullivan home early Sunday.

Two people accused of luring a couple to a Labadie area home last week then assaulting them are facing felony charges in Franklin County circuit court, authorities said.

A hotline call to the Franklin county Division of Family Services last week led to the arrest of two people and the seizure of methamphetamine and meth lab components in a home west of St. Clair.