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By: TMP Reports

Posted: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:32 pm

While responding to a fight call, Murfreesboro Police discovered a methamphetamine lab at Knight’s Inn motel about 9 a.m. Saturday on South Church Street.

This is the third methamphetamine lab discovered this month in Murfreesboro, spokesman Kyle Evans said.

Officer Tracey Womack cracked open the door of the room where she smelled chemicals and saw white smoke.

“I saw a Mountain Dew bottle containing liquid with hoses running out of the top,” Womack reported.

Police evacuated one wing of the motel while Officer Mick Rea and Detective Garry Templeton suited up in hazardous materials gear and dismantled the illegal lab. The Tennessee Meth Task Force took control of the cleanup, expected to cost at least $3,000.

Warrants were obtained charging two men in the room with initiating the process to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of Schedule II drugs and felony reckless endangerment.

Officer Bryant Smith reported the suspects accused of making the methamphetamine apparently got into a fight. Victim Tatjana Thorpe of Lambeth Drive was pushed through a window during the fight. Paramedics treated her for minor cuts.

Officer Anthony Whitehead responded to Middle Tennessee Medical Center where Tommy Owen was treated after two men threw him through a window during the fight.

Tagged under Meth lab, one-pot meth

Member Opinions:

By: OlDave on 1/25/10
NOW, As a follow up to good police work, let's be sure that the judges we elect start handing out maximum sentences to these "Drug-Heads", as well as sentencing them to pay restitution for the cost of the clean up.

By: josef on 1/25/10
I KNEW those darned Mountain Dews were poison!

By: BoltAction on 1/25/10
It's obvious putting all the OTC medicines behind the pharmacy hasn't slowed meth labs down. Can we move them back now so I don't have to stand in the incredibly slow pharmacy lines just to get my allergy medication?

By: BrockDowning on 1/26/10
Good police work? They accidently ran across this. Something preventative needs to be. I know we have a system set up but it is obviously flawed.

By: Farmall on 1/26/10
BoltAction, I understand your frustration, my friend has to wait in line and drive all the way to town at night to get her allergy medicine as well. I believe it has curtailed some of the meth going on with this program. And some have been caught when their name comes up to often from the name lists.

By: momx5 on 1/27/10
@brockdowning - good point re:accidental discovery. Perhaps sniff-out dogs could be used in high risk areas/locations on a regular basis for detection of hidden labs.
We flipped a house once that was a methlab, the clean up was unbelievable and then we had to disclose it's history.