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Staff photo by Adam Crisp Red Bank police Detective John Wright, left, and Officer Shane Dockery sort through the contents of a mobile meth lab Friday in the parking lot of Save-A-Lot grocery store on Dayton Blvd. The find came at the conclusion of a long-range drug investigation, police said. One suspect was arrested.
Red Bank police broke down a mobile methamphetamine lab Friday evening in the parking lot of a grocery store.
Officials called the find their largest meth lab bust — mobile or otherwise — since the drug became widely used.
The seizure came at the conclusion of a long-term investigation, Red Bank police Sgt. Dan Knight said. One suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was arrested and a truck impounded, he said.
“He had this huge meth lab in these bags,” Sgt. Knight said. “He could just travel wherever, set up shop and start making meth. It’s a huge lab.”
After tracking the suspect for a long period, police arrested him in the parking lot of the Save-A-Lot grocery store on Dayton Boulevard. Sgt. Knight said the suspect likely sold and manufactured meth all across the region.
The contents of the suspect’s vehicle, including about eight bags, mobile cookstoves, chemical ingredients and byproducts from the meth’s production, were sorted in the grocery store’s parking lot.
Red Bank Police Chief Larry Sneed commended the officers’ work as “excellent.”
Adam Crisp covers education issues for the Times Free Press. He joined the paper's staff in 2007 and initially covered crime, public safety, courts and general assignment topics. Prior to Chattanooga, Crisp was a crime reporter at the Savannah Morning News and has been a reporter and editor at community newspapers in southeast Georgia. In college, he led his student paper to a first-place general excellence award from the Georgia College Press Association. He earned ...
You can bust every meth lab you can come up with and you will not even START to put a dent in the huge demand for meth. Meth addicts LOVE their meth and if you shut down the local labs then the Mexican mafia will simply increase the amount of meth it exports into the USA to meet the new demand. Methamphetamine should be legal. Legalizing meth would kill meth labs, meth houses and the meth mafia overnight. A group of 20,000 very serious policemen, prosecutors and attorneys have formed a group to legalize ALL drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://leap.cc ) They see what happened when we legalized alcohol in 1932 as a good example of how drug legalization would work. We can't stop drugs. They're sick of chasing drug users and sending innocent people to prison for decades just because they like to get high. This foolish war on drugs has lasted 37 years and cost us over a TRILLION dollars and we are not an inch closer to stopping drugs. How many millions of Americans are we going to lock up in prison for decades? Legalize ALL drugs now. Mark Montgomery boboberg@nyc.rr.com
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