SIGNS OF DRUG USE AND SALES:

• Paranoia, anxious or hyper behavior, agitated, unable to stand still.
• Pale complexion, open sores, teeth rotting out, rapid weight loss, overall unhealthy, unkempt, rough looking people
• Up for long periods of time (several days) without sleep, followed with long periods of "crash" sleep.
• Kids in home are often neglected, left unattended for long periods.
• All night activity, visits, followed by little to no activity in daytime. Activity is sometimes day and night.
• High volume short-term visitors, often all night. Some visitors will park down the street and walk to the house, stay for brief visit, then walk back to vehicle. The vehicle may have several passengers;usually one person only will go to the home.
• Odd or eccentric behavior. May include yard work in the middle of the night, working in garage or shed all night. Very secretive and defensive, even hostile if asked about the behavior.
• There will often be many vehicles in the yard and parked on the street. Many users claim to earn their money by working on cars, few are legitimate mechanics. No one in the home has a real job.
• Run down houses and yards. Utilities are sometimes shut off due to non-payment
• New renters who move often. These new renters will attract lots of friends very quickly.
• Surveillance cameras. Windows of the house covered, sometimes with blankets or sheets.
• Hand-to-hand exchange of packages and cash. Some homes offer curbside business to cars that pull up out front.
• Constant flow of property coming to the home such as stereos, speakers, televisions, guns, tools, construction tools very popular as trade for drug items.
• Discarded items such as syringes, ziploc bags, glass tubes with burn residue in your yard or around the home of the suspects.
• Multiple pound containers of MSM (Nutritional Supplement for Horses), especially in a city dwelling. Multiple containers of this, full or empty, in a city home is suspicious and probably not legitimate. Used as a "cut" for methamphetamine.
• Numerous computers, VCRs, electronic equipment throughout the home, most of them not working or in stage of being dismantled.