Three guilty verdicts returned in meth case
After deliberating deep into the evening Wednesday, jurors returned with guilty verdicts against three out of four women charged with operating a meth lab from a Clark Street residence.
The defendants, Gabrielle Haston, Julia Whitaker and Leslie Elrod were each convicted on charges of attempt to manufacture meth and facilitation of attempted child neglect. The reduced child neglect convictions come because there were three children in the home. A fourth suspect, Samantha Whitaker was found not guilty.
The women were arrested in 2001 after police searched the residence and found numerous items used in the production of meth inside the house. The items were found in several rooms, some buried under clothes and other items in what police termed to be a very unkempt residence.
The defendants will be sentenced at a later date.