ASHLAND —
A suspicious odor emanating from an apartment led to a man and woman being arrested on meth-related charges on Tuesday.
Amy N. Nelson, 28, and William J. Hamlin, 24, both were lodged in the Boyd County Detention Center, each charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.
According to the Boyd County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were dispatched to an apartment building in the 1400 block of Patty Lane after a resident reported a suspicious odor coming from the apartment occupied by the two suspects.
Deputies located an active reactor to a one-step, or “shake and bake” meth lab outside the suspects’ apartment. A search warrant for the apartment was obtained and three more one-step labs were found inside it, the sheriff’s department said.
Nelson and Hamlin both remained in custody on Friday.
In an unrelated case also involving meth, a burglary investigation led to a lab being busted in Greenup County on Wednesday.
According to Sheriff Keith Copper, the incident began while deputies were responding to a burglary call at a home on Ky. 207. During the investigation, two suspects were identified and deputies went to their residence, where they noticed the lab.
After a search warrant was obtained, the two suspects allegedly attempted to conceal evidence of the lab by stuffing meth-making materials into holes in the floor of the home, Cooper said.
Deputies also recovered property stolen in the burglary, he said.
Arrested were Barbara Cornettt, 33, of Greenup, and Maxwell Wiley, 30, of Argillite. Both were charged with burglary and possession of meth precursors and lodged in the Greenup County Detention Center.
KENNETH HART can be reached at khart@dailyindependent.com or
(606) 326-2654.
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