TERRE HAUTE (WIBQ) - Police in Indiana now have an easy way to track sales of medicine containing a key ingredient in making methamphetamine- the internet.
A number of pharmacies and other businesses that sell pseudoephedrine-containing medications — are now electronically sending sales data to a new law enforcement database known as the Indiana Methamphetamine Investigation System. It's expected “cookers” of meth, who often get around the law by purchasing legal amounts of pseudoephedrine at multiple stores in different locations, can now be tracked more easily and identified.
Indiana law requires customers to fill out a form giving name and address when medicine containing pseudoephedrine is purchased. That information will now be entered into a computer system immediately uploaded to a central police data base.
