It's relatively easy to make. The problem in the Wood River Valley is not nearly as bad as other parts of southern Idaho, Werth said. Randy Kidd, an investigator with the Cassia County Sheriff's Office, has seen how warped crankers can get. Kidd recently interviewed a man as part of a homicide case in Blackfoot. Kidd learned the victim had been killed, because he was thought to be a police informant by paranoid meth users.
Some users resort to theft and burglary to support their habit.
They'll steal from their mothers or their grandmothers to get money for the drug. Almost daily the news includes something about meth. You'd be surprised who uses crank. He said he's seen use in people from below age 14 to 45 years old. Although alcohol, marijuana and cocaine are more common here, local youth also use meth, Liz said.