Deputies go looking for fugitive, find meth lab
A local couple faces narcotics charges after lawmen allegedly found a meth lab in the man’s home while looking for a fugitive.
The suspects, Clark Tubbs and Paula Walker, were charged with manufacture of methamphetamine after deputies reportedly found numerous items used in the production of the drug in Tubbs’ Tim Hollow Lane home.
According to Sheriff’s Lt. Jody Cavanaugh, deputies went to the Tubbs residence to serve a warrant on Tracy Burch after receiving information Burch was staying there. While inside looking for Burch, officers reported seeing several suspicious items.
A more in-depth search netted a quantity of items, including but not limited to muratic acid, beakers and tubing, two-layered liquids, and iodine. The find brought the immediate arrests of the suspects.
During the search, lawmen also learned Burch had indeed been hiding at the residence and had run out a rear door and into the nearby woods when officers arrived.
“We found where he had literally run out of his flip-flops to get away,” Cavanaugh said.
Burch remains at large despite a sweep of the woods by deputies. Burch is wanted on minor criminal warrants.