LIMINGTON, Maine (WGAN) The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and York County Sheriff’s Office says a Limington man has been charged with operating a meth lab.
33-year-old Andrew Sweeney was arrested and charged with unlawful operation of a methamphetamine laboratory .
Deputies conducted a bail compliance check on Sweeney at his home on 18 Hemlock Lane Wednesday evening. Sweeney had been released on bail earlier in the month on a drug possession charge.
During the bail check, Deputies recognized several items consistent with a meth lab underway inside Sweeney’s mobile home. They secured the scene, and contacted MDEA for assistance.
MDEA’s lab team arrived Thursday to process the scene and found five active, one pot meth labs inside the residence. They also located another 40 inactive meth lab containers in a shed on the property.
Meth is typically made from household ingredients reacting inside a plastic soda bottle. The State Environmental Protection Agency also responded to take custody of the dangerous chemicals and its by-products seized from the scene.
Sweeney was arrested without incident and transported to the York County Jail. No bail was set and he is scheduled to appear in York District Court later today.
This is the third meth lab incident MDEA has responded to this year. There were 52 meth lab related incidents MDEA responded to in 2018.
