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Calif. farm region is a meth network center, US says

‘Super labs’ run by drug cartels are hard to find

By Gosia Wozniacka and Tracie Cone

 |  Associated Press  

  January 22, 2012

When a 23-year-old Fresno woman fatally shot her two toddlers and a cousin, critically wounded her husband, then turned the gun on herself last Sunday, investigators immediately suspected methamphetamine abuse in what otherwise was inexplicable carnage. It turned out the mother had videotaped herself smoking meth hours before the shooting.

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