Two arrested in Zachary meth lab case

ZACHARY — Officers with the Delta Drug Task Force arrested two people and removed an illegal methamphetamine lab from an apartment, Zachary Police Chief David McDavid said Friday.

Task force officers received information about a suspected meth lab at an apartment at 1135 Willow Creek Lane, off La. 964, including neighbors’ complaints about ammonia and other chemical odors coming from it, the police chief said.

When a woman answered the door at the apartment about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the task force officers also smelled the odors typically associated with meth labs, McDavid said.

In a search of the apartment, officers found a quantity of methamphetamine that had recently been cooked, as well as ingredients used in making the illegal drug, McDavid said.

Officers booked Jeremy Beavers, 37, and his wife, Marcelle Beavers, 38, at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with operation of a clandestine lab, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia, McDavid said.

The police chief said his department had to call in a hazardous materials disposal company to clean up the materials. He said the city will have to pay the bill, but the department will attempt to recover the costs from the couple in court.

McDavid said he had not received a bill for the clean-up, but a previous clean-up cost the city $2,000.

Comments

1) Comment by Concernedcitizen123 - 14/10/2012

Unfortunately, there was more than one little boy hurt by this idiot of a father. Thank goodness, he decided when his first two were very little that he was going to be a deadbeat father and they were blessed with a stepdad that raised them as his own. A real man who stepped up when this loser would not. All I can say is his youngest little boy has been blessed. He can now be raised by someone who actually cares. As for the money that the City of Zachary hopes to get from them in clean up of the meth lab, all I can say is good luck since he pretty much owes a life savings in past due child support to the mom of his first two children. I can just hope that he ends up in DCI where he can spend quality time with the inmates he used to watch as a guard there!

2) Comment by JenniferW1126 - 13/10/2012

And somewhere a beautiful little boy is without his parents! I hope he was not in the home. What horrible parents!

3) Comment by CountryBoysCanSurvive - 13/10/2012

Than Goodness for Meth and DWI other than that there would not be any white people arrested

4) Comment by ScotB - 12/10/2012

Anybody that does drugs is a moron. These two look the part.

5) Comment by wadep66 - 12/10/2012

The clean up stuff is a ripoff to taxpayers. You don't call in the hazmat squad when someone refinishes cabinets or floors with flammable and caustic strippers. Why do it for a few bottles of naptha and some organic byproducts? Same thing. Quit trying to scare us.

6) Comment by CountryBoysCanSurvive - 12/10/2012

DMJ in a previous post you claimed to be white, if you are white, I am a Japanese mid-wife.

7) Comment by Duckyluve - 12/10/2012

Yea they should follow the lead of the black leaders and churches because they've done an incredible job in north baton rouge

8) Comment by DMJ - 12/10/2012

The white community needs to do something about this. This is a white problem and the white leaders and white churches have a responsibility to the rest of us to account for the actions of those who happen to be the same race, whether or not they actually know the person.