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February 8, 2010

Ardmore PD busts suspected meth labs

Ardmore Police searching for a wanted felon happened upon numerous “Shake ‘N Bake” methamphetamine labs Saturday, leading to three arrests, an official said.

Ardmore Police received information on Saturday that Jason McConnell, who had an outstanding felony warrant, was at a home on Pulaski Pike just east of Macedonia Road in Madison County, Ardmore Police Chief David Whitt said Monday.

Officers Terry Johnson, David Posey and Sean Posey met with Madison County Sheriff’s deputies and then proceeded to the home, where they found McConnell and numerous so-called Shake ‘N Bake meth labs, Whitt said.

(A Shake ‘N Bake meth lab is a mobile, one-pot method of making meth considered by law-enforcement officials to be a ticking time bomb.)

Arrested at the scene were Jason McConnell and Dustin Davis on charges of production of methamphetamine, Whitt said. They are being held in the Madison County Jail in lieu of posting a $250,000 bond each, he said.

An ongoing investigation and information gathered during Saturday’s arrest lead Ardmore officers to a self-storage unit on Jones Avenue in Ardmore on Sunday, the chief said.

Officers obtained a search warrant for the unit and found “the components for the assembly of an active methamphetamine lab,” Whitt said.

That lead to the arrest of Erika Nicole Edmondson, 19, of 26308 Seventh St. in Ardmore, on a felony charge of second-degree manufacturing methamphetamine, Whitt said.

She remained in the Limestone County Jail. Bond has not been set.

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