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Search Warrant Leads To Dismantling Of Meth Lab
The execution of a search warrant at a Summertown home last weekend resulted in agents seizing components used to manufacture the drug methamphetamine, as well as the dismantling of a small meth lab.
Agents with the Crime Suppression Unit of the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department made their way to the 120 Brace Road home Sunday to execute the search warrant. When they arrived on the scene, agents report a Centerville man fled through the rear door and was quickly apprehended. They discovered that he had in his hands a coffee filter that contained “recently stripped lithium batteries, a component valuable to the production of methamphetamine.” The suspect was identified as Theodore Jason Gatney, 26, of 6898 Oak Hill Road, Centerville.
Altogether, agents secured five suspects from the home. Two juveniles were also found to be inside the house.
During the search agents report finding numerous components used in the manufacture of methamphetamine along with marijuana and various items of drug paraphernalia. Outside, they report discovering a compact meth lab housed inside a small backpack.
In the wake of the operation all five individuals were placed under arrest. Gatney, and Ashley Starr Cooper, 20, of 112 Atkinson Heights, Centerville, along with Jeffery Pete Fautt, 34, of 3856 Taylor Stone Road, Hampshire, and Nicky Wayne Calvert, 43, of 120 Brace Road, Summertown, were each arrested on charges of initiation of the process to result in manufacture of methamphetamine as well as reckless endangerment. Resident Penni Teresa Blair, 42, was arrested on charges of initiation of the process to result in manufacture of methamphetamine and child abuse. All five are slated to answer the charges in Lawrence County General Sessions on Monday, September 22, 2008.
At the current time all five subjects are being held through the Lawrence County Jail under a bond of $150,000 apiece.
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