Monday, January 31, 2011
Meth Lab Dismantled In Public Housing Unit
A tip regarding the presence of a possible meth lab inside a public housing unit has led to the arrest of the resident on various drug charges.
Lawrence County Sheriff Jimmy Brown announced Monday that as a result of the information gleaned agents with his department conducted a “knock and talk” at the government housing unit situated at 1028 Maple Avenue on Friday.
Agents indicate that resident Christine Hunt, 38, granted consent for a search of the apartment. Inside they report finding numerous items utilized in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Contraband seized includes lye, aluminum foil, coffee filters, duct tape, three ounces of a single layer liquid, lithium batteries, funnels, homemade fittings, a pound of salt, ten feet of tubing, latex gloves, three coffee filters bearing a white powdery substance, and a two liter bottle.
Brown points out, “Two liter bottles are commonly used by meth cooks in the one pot meth lab as a container to combine the ingredients. The ingredients then react with one another producing the drug methamphetamine.”
As a result of the find Hunt was placed under arrest and transported to the Lawrence County Detention Center. She was booked under charges of initiation of a process intended to result in the production of methamphetamine and promotion of meth manufacture. She currently remains jailed under a bond of $100,000.
Hunt is scheduled to answer the charges before Lawrence County General Sessions Judge Patricia McGuire on February 14, 2011.
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