Information from WYSH Radio
Anderson County Sheriff’s deputies seeking to serve outstanding arrest warrants on a man located a meth lab inside a Lake City motel on Monday.
Deputies received information that Tommy Joe White was at the Blue Haven Motel on North Main Street in Lake City and arrived there at around 10:15 a.m. Deputies knocked on the door of room 109 and were given permission by a woman who answered the door to search the room. White was found hiding underneath the bed and taken into custody.
While he was being patted down, deputies reported finding drugs and drug paraphernalia on White. An active, one-pot meth lab was found hidden in a backpack between the room’s refrigerator and dresser.
In addition to the warrants, White was also charged with initiating the manufacture of meth and the manufacture, delivery or sale of drugs—both felonies—and simple possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia—both misdemeanors. Two women in the room, identified as 53-year-old Sherry Burgess of Lake City and a 32-year-old Rockwood woman, were also taken into custody, each charged with initiating the manufacture of meth and with the manufacture, delivery or sale of drugs—both felonies.
Burgess and White remained in custody at the Anderson County Jail as of this morning.
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