re: “Community Policing” - in this case, it was On-Star, but a big part of “Community Policing” is the awareness of residents, and a willingness to report things that are “out of place.”

Rather than depending on On Star, *someone* in the neighborhood should’ve dropped a dime on the strange van appearing in their neighborhood, with out-of-state plates, in the middle-of-the-night, with two people inside, and a chemical odor emanating.

If you want to keep your neighborhood safe, the first thing you have to do is open your eyes.

As one of the “richest counties in the nation”, the county manages to attract low-lifes from elsewhere, people who come here to shoplift and commit robberies and burglaries, and people who come here to traffic in drugs and other things. 

So, when some strange panel van shows up, with, say, NJ plates, cruising your neighborhood in the middle of the day, you should pay attention to what they’re doing.

Yes, ‘leesburgnw’ it is apparent that keeping crime and criminals out of this neighborhood is an on-going challenge.  Better to have them try to get in and out in cars where police can track them easily—than sneaking along back trails in the dead of night and then skirting off to some other residential neighborhood, I’d say.  Let’s leave the biking trails alongside the roads like the S. King St. Trail.  (Good thing the proponents of the SWC bridge did not get their wish to ‘connect the Loudoun Co. HS to this neighborhood,’ with a bridge which would have been a very attractive skate boarding ramp! :0

I think it is clear that meth has been here for a while when you look at the pictures of some of the rednecks that get busted for robbery in this county; the Walmart purse snatchers come to mind.

Interesting how the Clubhouse Drive SW neighborhood came out in force against a trail connection to Town…worried that such a connection would bring “crime and criminals” into their neighborhood

@Rocket - it’s not as big of a problem here as in Oregon.  Hopefully, Law Enforcement can continue to round up these low-lifes, before it infiltrates the schools.

Portable meth cooking is the latest, guess you could call it a lab.  The meth epidemic has been affecting the mid-west for quite some time as compared to the east and west coasts.  Notice the stolen Indiana vehicle mentioned.  Nasty homemade stuff not to be taken lightly when it comes to enforcement.

But…but…but…but…if we just legalize all drugs?!!!

//RonPaul SpamBOT//

Let me guess…White, buzz cut and covered in tats.

What a garbage heap Sterling is! Oh, wait…

Worry wurts(however you spell it)... Check out faces of meth… that stuff can change a Miss America runner up into betty white in the matter of months… I have done a lot of stuff in my life but def. not that stupid… anyone smoking or doin meth period should be shot… and to those making references to buying the weed brownies from the kids…BACK OFF they are my connect and im fat so the high and full bully just get my rocks off… haha

Lousy cops! Where am I going to get my tweak now? I guess I can buy pot brownies from the kids.

I hope our new sheriff devotes more resources to keeping this type of garbage out of the county, instead of sending ten or so officers to investigate weed brownies at Farmwell…This stuff is what really ruins lives.

As long as they didn’t bust Walter White and Jesse Pinkman

lisa myers - Most are thank goodness. The community based policing that has dropped murder rates in DC, NYC, and LA rely on that fact; they catch the problem people doing stupid small stuff like having a stolen car at a meth lab.

@Onstar - hate to burst your bubble, but this stuff is a problem everywhere.

This is one of those “Crooks Are Stupid” events.

Good work LPD !  I sure hope this junk doesn’t show up in our area.  It’s a huge problem on the West Coast.