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Officials find lab in a cave
By Kelly Townsend
The Times-Journal
Published October 19, 2005
An unusual discovery last week in a cave at Peak’s Corner, near the Fyffe area, still has Drug Task Force agents looking for answers.
Task Force Commander Darrell Collins said he received a complaint Thursday about an active meth lab inside the cave.
“We have worked several calls since Oct. 1 about abandoned meth labs, but I think this is the first one we have ever worked where it was found inside a cave,” Collins said. “There was a time when we found several marijuana plants growing inside caves in the county, but this is the first active meth lab I can remember.”
An unidentified man, searching the area for arrowheads, apparently found the lab Thursday afternoon, Collins said.
The size of the lab was more than agents could handle in one trip. Agents had to make several trips with two four-wheelers to get all the materials out of the cave.
“We don’t have any leads at this point,” Collins said. “But there is still an open investigation into who might have left this lab there.”
Authorities have no idea how long the lab was inside the cave.
In other drug activity over the weekend, Collins said agents made two arrests in the Crossville area Sunday.
A DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy, along with the Crossville police department received a call Sunday, according to Collins, that a vehicle had ran off the side of the road in Aroney, near Crossville.
“Apparently they came back to get the truck out of the water, when authorities arrived at the scene,” Collins said.
The incident happened sometime around 11 a.m., Collins said.
Fifteen grams of methamphetamine were found inside the truck, according to Collins.
DeKalb County Sheriff Cecil Reed said there was no visible damage to the truck, but said [Michael Shane] Gilbreath and Derek Neil Edwards caused an extensive amount of property damage to private property.
“When they wrecked they took out several fences on the property, “Reed said.
The value of the damage was unknown Monday, Reed said.
Gilbreath, 27 of Crossville, and Edwards, 31 of Crossville, are in the DeKalb County jail on charges of possession of controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
A routine traffic stop by a DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy also landed a Fort Payne and Rainsville man in jail early last week.
Deputy Craig White pulled over a car occupied by Neil Christopher Childers, 37 of Fort Payne, and James Todd, 45 of Rainsville.
Collins said White found pseudophedrine and all the items used to make methamphetamine inside the car.
“Dept. [Craig] White requested back-up from us and one of our officers responded,” Collins said.
Childers and Todd were both arrested and charged with second-degree unlawful manufacturing of controlled substance.
Both men were booked in the DeKalb County jail.
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Officials find lab in a cave
By Kelly Townsend
The Times-Journal
Published October 19, 2005
An unusual discovery last week in a cave at Peak’s Corner, near the Fyffe area, still has Drug Task Force agents looking for answers.
Task Force Commander Darrell Collins said he received a complaint Thursday about an active meth lab inside the cave.
“We have worked several calls since Oct. 1 about abandoned meth labs, but I think this is the first one we have ever worked where it was found inside a cave,” Collins said. “There was a time when we found several marijuana plants growing inside caves in the county, but this is the first active meth lab I can remember.”
An unidentified man, searching the area for arrowheads, apparently found the lab Thursday afternoon, Collins said.
The size of the lab was more than agents could handle in one trip. Agents had to make several trips with two four-wheelers to get all the materials out of the cave.
“We don’t have any leads at this point,” Collins said. “But there is still an open investigation into who might have left this lab there.”
Authorities have no idea how long the lab was inside the cave.
In other drug activity over the weekend, Collins said agents made two arrests in the Crossville area Sunday.
A DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy, along with the Crossville police department received a call Sunday, according to Collins, that a vehicle had ran off the side of the road in Aroney, near Crossville.
“Apparently they came back to get the truck out of the water, when authorities arrived at the scene,” Collins said.
The incident happened sometime around 11 a.m., Collins said.
Fifteen grams of methamphetamine were found inside the truck, according to Collins.
DeKalb County Sheriff Cecil Reed said there was no visible damage to the truck, but said [Michael Shane] Gilbreath and Derek Neil Edwards caused an extensive amount of property damage to private property.
“When they wrecked they took out several fences on the property, “Reed said.
The value of the damage was unknown Monday, Reed said.
Gilbreath, 27 of Crossville, and Edwards, 31 of Crossville, are in the DeKalb County jail on charges of possession of controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
A routine traffic stop by a DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy also landed a Fort Payne and Rainsville man in jail early last week.
Deputy Craig White pulled over a car occupied by Neil Christopher Childers, 37 of Fort Payne, and James Todd, 45 of Rainsville.
Collins said White found pseudophedrine and all the items used to make methamphetamine inside the car.
“Dept. [Craig] White requested back-up from us and one of our officers responded,” Collins said.
Childers and Todd were both arrested and charged with second-degree unlawful manufacturing of controlled substance.
Both men were booked in the DeKalb County jail.
The Times-Journal
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