Meth lab bust nets three arrests

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Story Created: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:35 PM

Story Updated: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:35 PM

MURRAY, Ky. — Investigators found approximately 20 one-step methamphetamine labs during a drug bust in Murray on Friday. 

According to Kentucky State Police, members of the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force and Murray Police Department searched a home in the 16-hundred block of Hamilton Avenue.
 
During the search they found an active meth lab and troopers on the scene determined that the building needed to be evacuated.  
 
The Murray City Fire Department was requested and responded as a precaution.  Hamilton Avenue had to be closed for several hours, while state police technicians had to dismantle and clean up the meth lab.  
 
After the building was deemed safe to return, troopers and detectives resumed the search locating suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, and other items used to make methamphetamine.  Troopers also located approximately 20 one-step methamphetamine labs at the residence.  
 
Sandra Pie, Gary Thorn, and Apollo Tolmie were each charged with Manufacturing Methamphetamine-First Offense, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of Controlled Substance-First Degree, First Offense, and Wanton Endangerment -First Degree.  All subjects were lodged in the Calloway County Jail.