By David Hedges Publisher
Times Record-Roane County Reporter
Police made the third meth lab arrest in Roane County in as many weeks Monday when they raided a home near Looneyville.
Clyde Earl McQuain, 50, and Kathern M. Craft, 39, were both charged with operating a clandestine drug lab after eight officers from three agencies entered their home at 6838 Clay Road around 8:30 p.m. Monday.
Roane Sheriff Todd Cole said Craft was found in the basement where the lab was located. McQuain was in another part of the home.
Cole said items found in the home indicate the operation was not a new one. "It looked like they had been doing it for some time," said the sheriff.
Cole said employees of two local businesses, Wal-Mart and Go-Mart, where items to manufacture methamphetamine were purchased, helped tip off police.
"Without their help, we wouldn't have gotten enough information to get a search warrant," said Cole.
This is the first time local businesses have alerted police to meth-related purchases, but Cole said he doesn't expect it will be the last...
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