Posted on 12/21/2003 1:01:22 PM PST by fella
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Meth lab busted in Gentry
By Stacey Roberts Staff Writer staceyr@nwanews.com
Saturday, December 20, 2003
BENTONVILLE ? The rifles and shotguns were stacked against the wall with bundles and packages of marijuana. Handguns were lined up in front of the guns? stocks. A copy of High Times magazine was propped among the weapons, the faces of Cheech and Chong on the cover.
What the Benton County Sheriff?s Office wasn?t showing during a press conference Friday afternoon were the components of two or three methamphetamine laboratories discovered during a search of a Gentry residence.
Public Information Deputy Doug Gay and Criminal Investigations Division Capt. Mike Sydoriak answered questions Friday about the search warrant the Benton County Sheriff?s Office, the Adair and Delaware County sheriff?s offices in Oklahoma, and the Siloam Springs, Rogers and Gentry police departments cooperated on.
The warrant was served at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at 9600 Ruby Hall Road, the home of Maranda Lee-Adams Boyles, 44. About 30 weapons, 10 to 15 pounds of marijuana in various stages of processing and the meth labs were seized. A Polaris four-wheel all-terrain vehicle was also recovered. Gay estimated the value of the marijuana at $1,000 a pound.
Gay said the labs were operating and contained mixtures in various stages of production, but no finished meth was recovered. Samples of the components were sent to be tested.
Boyles? home has been under investigation for a couple of months, Gay said. "We?ve been working it since November," he said. "We had evidence of selling and manufacturing." "We went in (Thursday) because an informant said they were in the middle of a ? cook, ?" Sydoriak said. He was referring to the meth-making process.
While law enforcement had information on the meth labs, the marijuana was an "added bonus," Sydoriak said. "We went in for the meth but found this," he said.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Boyles and Troy Allan Lewis, 37, both of Oklahoma. Neither was at the home during the search, Gay said. "We?re not sure if there will be any additional warrants," he said.
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