Georgia Deputies Stumble Into Home-Based Meth Lab While Serving Foreclosure Notice; Score Big Bust

In Tift County, Georgia, WFXL-TV Channel 31 reports:

• The routine serving of a bank foreclosure notice turns into a big drug bust in Tift County. Tift County Sheriff’s Department Information Officer David Hare tells FOX 31 News that sheriff’s deputies were serving a bank foreclosure notice Wednesday afternoon at 1241 WB Parks Road when they saw signs of a possible meth lab operation.

• Hare says additional law enforcement officials were called to the scene to execute a search warrant of the home. They reported finding chemicals inside the home and on the adjacent property that were being used to manufacture methamphetamine.

• Hare says officers with the Mid-State Narcotics Task Force arrested the homeowner, 43-year-old Michael Willis and charged him with manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, forgery, and manufacturing fake Georgia driver’s licenses.

For the story, see Deputies serving foreclosure notice cash in on meth lab.