PROBLEMS.
ACTION NEWS REPORTER CHRISTOPHER
SALAS IS LIVE IN SANTA CRUZ WITH
MORE ON OUR TOP STORY.
REPORTER DAN, THEY TELL ME IT
IS LSD BECAUSE THEY ARE FLAT-OUT
TELLING THEM.
DAN, IT’S NOT JUST THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
THE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
TELLS ME THEY’RE SEEING THE
INCREASE IN THE DRUG AS WELL.
>> EVERY MORNING I COME IN TO
TALK TO MY SAERGANTS ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED THE NIGHT BEFORE AND
TRENDS THEY ARE SEEING.
REPORTER: FOR CHIEF MILLS,
NORMALLY THE QUICK ANSWER IS NO,
BUT LATELY --
>> THEY’RE SEEING A LOT OF HIGH
LEVEL INTOXICATION WITH LSD.
REPORTER: LSD IS A
HALLUCINOGENIC DRUG OFTEN
ASSOCIATED WITH RAVES OR
PARTIES, MILLS SAYS THEY’VE
DEALT WITH LSD CASES BEFORE, BUT
HE TOOK TO TWITTER WARNING THE
PUBLIC THAT THIS TIME IT’S
DIFFERENT.
>> FOR SOME REASON, PEOPLE ARE
HAVING A VERY BAD REACTION TO
IT.
THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS WE’VE
HAD 4 NAKED PEOPLE RUNNING
AROUND SCREAMING THAT THEY’RE
SEEING RAINBOWS AT NIGHT TIME
AND UNICORNS FLYING THROUGH THE
SKY.
REPORTER: THIS ISN’T THE FIRST
TIME A BAD BATCH OF LSD HAS
CIRCULATED IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.
JUST TWO YEARS AGO A 15-YEAR-OLD
APTOS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
STABBED HIS UNCLE AND FATHER
WHILE HIGH ON THE DRUG.
HE WAS THEN FATALY SHOT BY A
SHERIFF’S DEPUTY AFTER HE TRIED
TO ATTACK THEM NEXT.
>> PEOPLE CAN THINK THAT IT’ A
-- IT IS A BENIGN HALLUCINOGEN
ALL THEY WANT BUT IT’S NOT.
IT CERTAINLY BECOMES A CONCERN
FOR THE POLICE.
WELL HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH IT?
MILLS SAYS HIS OFFICE IS WORKING
TO FIND OUT WHO IS THE SOURCE
SUPPLYING THE LACED DRUG.
THAT’S NOT TOLERABLE, WE’RE
GOING TO GO AFTER IT.
FOR THE PEOPLE TAKING THE LSD,
IT’S A PARTY THING AND AGAIN
IT’S FOOLISH AT BEST.
REPORTER: NOW THESE NAKED
EPISODES SOUND EERILY SIMILAR TO
WHAT HAPPENED JUST LAST WEEK,
WHEN A WOMAN WAS ATTACKED AT THE
CLOCK TOWER IN DOWNTOWN SANTA
CRUZ BY A MAN WHO THEN GOT
NAKED.
CHIEF MILLS TELLS ME THE SUSPECT
WAS NOT ON LSD AT THE TIME AND
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT
CASE.
DAN: IN ADDITION TO THE
INCREASED LSD ACTIVITY THE
, POLICE DEPARTMENT TELLS US
THEY
