Shasta County District Attorney’s Office

The total numbers of methamphetamine charges filed and cases convicted during the years 2000 through 2004 are given below. Please note the following:

•    “Filed” includes charges of possession (11377), sale (11378) and transportation (11379) but does not include manufacturing.

•     An individual may have been charged with multiple offenses and would, therefore, have contributed to more than one case filed.

•    These figures do not include crimes in which methamphetamine may have been involved in many ways but in which meth offenses were not the primary criminal act.  For example, an assault may have occurred while, and perhaps because, the offender was under the influence of meth. Or, an identity theft may have been perpetrated to gain funds with which to purchase meth. For economic and other reasons (cost of drug testing, prosecution, etc.) these cases are often filed as assault or larceny and no meth-specific charges are included. Thus, the numbers given here understate the influence of methamphetamine on criminal activity in (and cost to) our community.

Year
 2000
 2001
 2002
 2003
 2004
Filed
 590
 625
 652 607 696
Convictions
 401
 389
 410
 392
 467

5 April 2005


Shasta County Methamphetamine Task Force

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