Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Follow-Up Investigation Into Meth Lab Yields More Charges
Police officers following up on leads gleaned during the recent raid of a meth lab on Buffalo Road report that three additional individuals are now facing charges.
Detectives with the Lawrenceburg Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division report that they had gone to a Valley Road home to follow up on possible criminal littering after a resident’s name was found on papers at the meth lab site.
Reports show that detectives were allowed into the home. As they entered, they noticed thirty-four year old resident Talia Michelle Hensley in an adjacent bedroom, “Bending over beside a dresser messing with something as if she was hiding something.” They asked Hensley whether she had any knowledge of the meth lab. She told them that the only thing she knew was that, “One of the names found among the lab was her girlfriend.”
Detectives spoke with Shane Scott Flatt, age 42, of 9 Augustin Lane, Loretto outside of the residence. They report that when they asked whether he had anything illegal on his person or inside his vehicle he handed over seven 10 mg Valium pills from his pocket. He allowed detectives to search his vehicle and they report that no other items of contraband were found. They did find a purse sitting on the passenger’s seat, however, that Flatt said belonged to fifty-one year old Angela Marie Joiner of Lexington, Alabama.
Joiner was at the residence at that time and granted consent for a search of her purse. Detectives report finding a marijuana pipe inside along with .2 grams of methamphetamine, a drug tooter, aluminum foil with drug residue, and cotton swabs.
They report that Hensley consented to a search of her room. Inside, they report finding two 20 mg Valium pills, coffee filters (some of which bore residue of a white powdery substance), plastic baggies, glass jars, rolling papers, drug tooters, marijuana pipes, a container of MSM, digital scales, boxes of baggies, and a length of tubing that “resembled what was found in the meth lab on Buffalo Road.” Detectives found fourteen syringes, one of which contained an unknown liquid substance. Also, they report that one of the glass jars had “white residue all over inside from being used to make meth.”
The combined weight of meth found inside Hensley’s room was said to be 1.78 grams.
Both Joiner and Flatt were issued citations for one count of possession of a Schedule IV narcotic. Joiner was additionally cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. Both were scheduled an initial appearance in General Sessions Court on April 2, 2015.
Detectives report that evidence against Hensley is being presented to a Lawrence County Grand Jury. At that time, they said, they will be seeking indictments against her on charges of initiation of the manufacture of meth, possession of Schedule II narcotics for the purpose of resale, possession of Schedule II narcotics, possession of Schedule IV narcotics, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
