FORT WAYNE – Police discovered eight one-pot meth labs and arrested two people this week at a Fort Wayne home.
A tipster alerted city narcotics officers that Joy D. Hughes and James “Tweak” D. Lipscomb were making meth in the house southwest of downtown at 2036 Elyetta St., police said.
Drug officers and U.S. marshals went to the residence, near Taylor and Freeman streets, at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday and took Hughes, 36, and Lipscomb, 25, into custody.
Inside the home, one of the bottles used as a one-pot meth lab had black electrical tape wrapped around the cap – a detail consistent with the one-pot labs found Jan. 31 dumped along the Towpath Trail, according to court records. Those discarded labs, found near the 4000 block of Covington Road just west of Ardmore Avenue, were about a mile from the house on Elyetta.
In the home, police also reported finding 28 devices used to make other one-pot labs. Meth ingredients, drug paraphernalia, 1.6 grams of marijuana and 18.5 grams of a substance that tested positive for ephedrine or pseudoephedrine were also found, according to court records.
Hughes and Lipscomb were each preliminarily charged Wednesday with three felonies – dealing meth, possession of two or more meth precursors and maintaining a common nuisance – as well as misdemeanor marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession.
Hughes already had a DeKalb County warrant for exceeding the pseudoephedrine purchase limit, and Lipscomb was wanted on a parole violation, according to court records.
Allen County authorities were holding Lipscomb and Hughes without bail Wednesday.
