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An orange warning sign is posted on the door to room 123 at the Economy Inn on Monticello Street, where a meth lab was discovered Saturday morning. The neighboring room, 122, has visible damage from a previous fire at that location. Photo by Tricia Neal

September 7, 2010

Two suspected cookers arrested

by Tricia Neal Commonwealth Journal The Commonwealth Journal Tue Sep 07, 2010, 07:38 AM EDT

Somerset — The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department has uncovered a meth lab in an area of Somerset where drug activity is not uncommon.

Saturday morning, Sheriff’s Deputy Steve Molen visited room 123 of the Economy Inn on Monticello Street after receiving information that a methamphetamine lab may be located there.

The room, occupied by William Brandon Bailey, 24, and Amanda Nicole Goodman, 27, contained a one-step generator, tubing, liquid fire, starter fluid, and coffee filters — all traditionally used in the making of methamphetamine.

Molen also discovered two hypodermic needles — one of which contained an unknown substance, a Carsiprodol pill, and a small amount of marijuana.

Bailey and Goodman were arrested and lodged in the Pulaski County Detention Center.

Bailey was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance 1st and 3rd degree, and possession of a prescription controlled substance not in a proper container.

Goodman was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a controlled substance 1st and 3rd degree.

Bailey listed the room at Economy Inn as his residence.

The neighboring room, 122, has a broken-out window and soot outside the window, signs that a fire has occurred there in the not-too-distant past. There has been at least one fire at the Economy Inn believed to have been started by a meth lab. Officials who were asked yesterday could not remember whether room 122 was the location of that fire.

The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department was assisted at the scene Saturday by the Somerset Police Department and the Somerset Fire Department’s Methamphetamine Clean-up Team.

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