Crossville Police dispatched to investigate what a caller described as a domestic disturbance taking place in a vehicle turned out to be more than a spat with police seizing components associated with the clandestine operation of a methamphetamine lab.
Police also arrested two occupants and seized the vehicle.
Around 7 p.m. Christmas day, Crossville Police were dispatched to the area of Progressive Savings Bank on N. Main St. after a passerby reported a suspected "rolling domestic disturbance."
Police stopped a 1992 Jeep Cherokee Ptl. Danny Harris spoke to the driver while MPtl. Jon Wirey talked to the passenger. During the interviews, officers detected an odor coming from the vehicle that they associated with the manufacture of methamphetamine.
A drug detection dog was brought to the scene, along with handler Sgt. Bart Riden, and the dog alerted the officers as to the presence of an illegal substance.
The resulting search yielded officers a syringe, crack pipe, a camp stove burner, lye, peroxide and lighter fluid. Also found were PH test strips, muratic acid, gloves, razor blades, clear plastic bags and coffee filters.
Tiffany Hope Cooper, 21, 159 Mayberry St., and Christopher W. Nicholas, 29, 340 Cinnamon Circle, are charged with initiation of the process of the manufacture of methamphetamine and were placed under $10,000 bond. Both were to appear in Cumberland County General Sessions Court on Jan. 5.
