Suspect Arrested for Third Meth Offense
Tuesday August 15, 2006 8:32am
Posted By: Amanda Manatt
Lonoke - A Lonoke County man is behind bars Tuesday morning, accused of manufacturing meth. This is the third time in three months the suspect has been arrested for manufacturing meth, and this time, police say three meth labs were found on the same property.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Lonoke County Sheriff's deputies were called to a rural home on Highway 31 South between Lonoke and Coy where they discovered a working meth lab.
Thirty-six-year-old Tony Oswalt and 32-year-old Jason Morton were arrested and charged with various drug charges. Police say the bust happened at Morton's home, but it was the third time since May that Oswalt had been arrested for making meth.
While on the property, police found a second meth lab in a hidden compartment and a third lab in the barn.
(Lt. Jim Kulesa, Lonoke Co. Sheriff’s Dept.) "We haven't found any finished product yet but as I said it was a lab and it was in production at the time we were here. They were in the process of cooking right then and there."
Authorities say Oswalt had bonded out of jail after his previous arrests.