Four Metro Meth Labs Busted In 24 Hours
Investigation Pinpoints 'Significant' Group Of Drug Makers
POSTED: 4:35 p.m. MST February 16, 2002
UPDATED: 4:51 p.m. MST February 16, 2002
Police made a number of methamphetamine drug busts in the metro area between Friday night and Saturday afternoon and said several of them may be the result of a meth-lab ring.
The first bust was in Thornton, Colo., near 100th Avenue and Grant St. Thornton police said that were called to Big's Store on a report that a woman was passing bad checks.
While questioning a suspect in the parking lot they discovered what appeared to be a good-sized make-shift meth lab in the back of the van she had been allegedly been driving.
Denver police were called to a home in the Montbello neighborhood Saturday morning on a report of a man holding a woman against her will. Police said they found meth-making material in the home. The bomb squad was called out when police thought there might be a bomb in the house, but there wasn't.
Saturday afternoon the North Metro Drug Task Force found a suspected drug lab in a camper-type mobile home near I-76 and 88th Avenue. The camper was registered to Pam English, the woman who died in a meth-lab fire in Denver last month, investigators said.
"With this new development we think we have pinpointed a significant group of meth manufactuers, " said Jim Gerhardt, North Metro Drug Task Force.
Also Saturday afternoon police found a suspected meth lab in a Thornton mobile home park in the 3600 block of E. 88th Ave., 7NEWS reported.
Police in all three jurisdictions are continuing their investigations.
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The first bust was in Thornton, Colo., near 100th Avenue and Grant St. Thornton police said that were called to Big's Store on a report that a woman was passing bad checks.
While questioning a suspect in the parking lot they discovered what appeared to be a good-sized make-shift meth lab in the back of the van she had been allegedly been driving.
Denver police were called to a home in the Montbello neighborhood Saturday morning on a report of a man holding a woman against her will. Police said they found meth-making material in the home. The bomb squad was called out when police thought there might be a bomb in the house, but there wasn't.
Saturday afternoon the North Metro Drug Task Force found a suspected drug lab in a camper-type mobile home near I-76 and 88th Avenue. The camper was registered to Pam English, the woman who died in a meth-lab fire in Denver last month, investigators said.
"With this new development we think we have pinpointed a significant group of meth manufactuers, " said Jim Gerhardt, North Metro Drug Task Force.
Also Saturday afternoon police found a suspected meth lab in a Thornton mobile home park in the 3600 block of E. 88th Ave., 7NEWS reported.
Police in all three jurisdictions are continuing their investigations.
- February 5, 2002: Suspected Meth Lab In Denver Explodes
- January 28, 2002: Meth Lab May Be Cause Of Aurora Fire
- January 26, 2002: Motel Evacuated After Meth Lab Discovered
- January 22, 2002: Suspects In Fatal Meth Lab Evicted
- January 17, 2002: Police: Meth Lab Caused Fatal Fire
- January 9, 2002: Meth Lab Fight Moves Into Supermarkets
- December 20, 2001: State Prepares Meth-Lab Crackdown
- December 5, 2001: Meth Use Rising As Task Force Honored
- November 22, 2001: Meth Lab Explodes
- June 27, 2001: Suspected Thornton Meth Lab Busted
- May 9, 2001: Alleged Meth Lab Discovered At Brighton Business
- May 9, 2001: Meth Lab Busted In Upscale Thornton Community
- April 17, 2001: Suspected Meth Lab Explodes, Injuring Two
- April 16, 2001:
- March 14, 2001: Drug Lab Busted In Hotel Room
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