Feb 5, 2021
SALEM The number of cases may be down, but drugs remain a problem that did not slow up during COVID-19 in Salem.
That’s what Police Chief J.T. Panezott indicated during a recent interview regarding 2020 police department statistics.
“We saw an increase of people going through drug abuse crises. The big concern to me is the amount of methamphetamine we’re seeing,” he said.
According to Panezott, it’s not unique to Salem, but something everybody else is seeing, with a surge of methamphetamine statewide and not the homemade kind, but the pure meth from super labs in Mexico. They’re also seeing fentanyl, but the amount of methamphetamine is dwarfing all other drugs.