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At the residence, in the 300 block of North Cheyenne Street, officers found methamphetamine and marijuana, chemicals and other materials used to make meth and paraphernalia for ingesting drugs, Powell police announced in a Monday news …
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Police say a Saturday search turned up evidence that a 47-year-old Powell man was manufacturing methamphetamine inside his Cheyenne Street home.
At the residence, in the 300 block of North Cheyenne Street, officers found methamphetamine and marijuana, chemicals and other materials used to make meth and paraphernalia for ingesting drugs, Powell police announced in a Monday news release.
John B. Shehan was arrested at the scene. Police were recommending that he be charged with unlawfully operating a clandestine laboratory, delivering a controlled substance and endangering a child, the release said.
The news release said a juvenile and another adult also were in the home at the time of the search; the juvenile was released to the custody of the Wyoming Department of Family Services.
Shehan remained in jail on Monday, expected to make his first court appearance on Tuesday morning in Park County Circuit Court in Cody.
“There will be more charges, and there will be additional defendants,” Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt said Monday.
Officers with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, the Powell Police Department and the Park County Sheriff’s Office executed the search warrant around 3 p.m. Saturday.
Because of the potentially dangerous materials involved, police were assisted by personnel from the Powell Volunteer Fire Department, emergency medical technicians from Powell Valley Hospital and the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security’s regional emergency response team — which has specialized training in handling hazardous materials.
Eckerdt said there appears to be a resurgence in smaller-scale meth labs.
“It doesn’t take a lot of space, and it doesn’t take a lot of equipment,” he said, adding, “They could be anywhere from a cooler to the trunk of a car to a house to a garage to a shop.”
While the “single use” or “single pot” operations are smaller — one Powell man was reported to have made the drug in a plastic bottle last year — he said they’re still dangerous.
“You’re still using the same highly flammable products in an enclosed environment,” Eckerdt said.
He said Saturday’s search marked Powell area law enforcement’s third investigation into reported meth manufacturing since the fall.
