Thursday, April 18, 2013
Two men hospitalized in the blast, reports our news partner at WEWS Channel 5.
Two men were injured when a methamphetamine lab exploded in a duplex late Wednesday night, police said. The explosions blew out windows Wednesday night of a house on Mac Drive near Darrow Road, our news partner at WEWS Channel 5 reports. The meth lab was in a back bathroom. Stow police said the men, ages 28 and 29, were taken to an area hospital with burns to their hands, feet and face. Police suspect the two of making the meth that caused the blasts. The neighbors in the other side of the duplex were not home at the time. The Summit County Drug Task Force is assisting in the investigation. Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_summit/methamphetamine-lab-explodes-on-mac-drive-in-stow#ixzz2QoPLwrFF
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Mac Dr & Darrow Rd, Stow, OH
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Monday, February 18, 2013
The following was obtained from Stow police reports dated Feb. 10. It does not indicate a conviction.
On Feb. 10, a Stow police officer grew suspicious after he spotted a shopper leaving Walmart with items known to be used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. The officers stopped the man and was given permission to search his parked car and the passengers in it. The officer found a glass pipe belonging to one of the passengers -- a 32-year-old Barberton woman. She was charged with drug paraphenalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, and was issued a summons to appear in Stow Municipal Court. The shopper was not charged.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Joshua B. Tipton of Stow was sentenced to the mandatory prison time.
Joshua B. Tipton, 27, of Stow, was sentenced to six years in prison and to pay a $10,000 fine after being found guilty of making methamphetamines near a Kent school this winter. "Your honor, I maintain I’m innocent of these charges other than being in the paddy wagon,” Tipton was reported saying in a Record Courier story. “I’m innocent, sir.” Read more about the two-day trial, like how Tipton plans to appeal the decision, in the full Record Courier story. Lori L. Claeys, 37, of Echo Valley Drive in Stow, was also arrested for making methamphetamine in the Kent house less than two blocks from Holden Elementary School. Claeys, Tipton and Kenneth J. Brewster, 45, of Kent were arrested Dec. 14 at 319 W. Elm St. after a joint investigation …
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132 W School St, Kent, OH
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
About 1,000 pills of Pseudoephedrine are typically used to cook meth. The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department.
Recently a Stow Police report filed because someone purchased Pseudoephedrine three times within the last 30 consecutive days at Walmart. More than 9 grams of the over-the-counter drug were purchased. Unlawful purchasing of Pseudoephedrine is a first-degree misdemeanor. When customers buy these products with the drug in it, an ID is required and names are documented. Police Lt. Anne Stirm explained that buying a certain amount is illegal because Pseudoephedrine is one of the main ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamines. "Typically, 60 milligrams of Pseudoephedrine or 1,000 pills are required to cook meth," she said. "The law limits the amount of purchase to 3.6 grams daily or 9.0 grams in a 30-day period." (Ohio Revised Code …
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Wal-Mart
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Stow Police Officers pulled over an Akron woman April 21 because of an equipment violation, but found several other subsequent offenses. First, police noticed that the woman was driving under suspension, according to the report. After officers arrested the 33-year-old woman, police said they found a substance believed to be heroin, methamphetamine, syringes, spoons, a glass pipe, straws, a prescription bottle of Ibuprofen, two knives, scissors, tweezers and an orange plastic water bottle with a spoon and syringe. The woman was charged with drug abuse (heroin), drug abuse (methamphetamine), both fifth-degree felonies, having drug abuse instruments, a second-degree misdemeanor, having drug paraphernalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor and …
Friday, April 6, 2012
Stow Police and the city's building inspector boarded up a home at 2106 Uniondale Dr. in December because it was uninhabitable and being used, again, to manufacture methamphetamine.
The home on Uniondale Drive that was found to be the site of a methamphetamine lab twice is now being torn down by Dave Helmling Excavating. And it's apparently one of the worst homes the company has torn down ever. Dave Helmling told the Stow Sentry about 40 cubic yards of trash were taken out of the home on Tuesday. Stow Police first went to the home, at 2106 Uniondale Dr., in September after receiving an anonymous tip about possible illegal drug activity. Officers said they went to the home and witnessed the men making meth in the garage and arrested Stephen Gene McKinney, 41, and the homeowner Lewis Gene Butler, Jr., 39, for producing the drug with a 2-year-old child in the home in September. Police also found guns on the property. …
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2106 Uniondale Dr, Stow, OH
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Thanks to a tip from Stow resident, Stow Police said they found the man they have been searching for since December for manufacturing methamphetamines. Lewis Gene Butler Jr., 39, of Stow was arrested Jan. 5 and charged with felony counts of illegal manufacturing of drugs and possession of chemicals to manufacture drugs. Butler was arrested at 2106 Uniondale Dr. in September for manufacturing methamphetamines in the garage while a 2-year-old child was in the house, according to Stow Police. After police and the city's building inspector boarded up the Uniondale home because it was uninhabitable and being used, again, to manufacture methamphetamine, police were, again, looking for Butler. Police Lt. Anne Stirm told the Stow Sentry, "someone…
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Graham Rd & Vira Rd, Stow, OH
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Stow Police and the city's building inspector boarded up a home at 2106 Uniondale Dr. because it was uninhabitable and being used, again, to manufacture methamphetamine. Police are now searching for the homeowner: 39-year-old Lewis Gene Butler Jr. Butler was arrested at the Uniondale location in September for manufacturing methamphetamines in the garage while a 2-year-old child was in the house, according to Stow Police. Police are searching for Butler, who has previously been charged for manufacturing methamphetamines and there are warrants out for his arrest for illegal manufacturing of meth. Police got a call from a resident Tuesday morning who suspected the electrical power to the house was being illegally provided from another nearby…
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2106 Uniondale Dr, Stow, OH
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Two others arrested on unrelated charges
A Stow woman is facing a charge of making methamphetamine in a Kent house less than two blocks from Holden Elementary School. Lori L. Claeys, 37, of 2412 Echo Valley Drive, Stow, was being held in the Portage County jail Thursday after being arrested for making meth in Kent's South End. Claeys was arrested Wednesday at 319 W. Elm St. after a joint investigation by the Kent Police Department, Ravenna Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Youngstown Task Force. She is charged with one count of illegal manufacture of methamphetamine, a first-degree felony, in the vicinity of a school. Kent Police Lt. Paul Canfield said the house was not a full-blown lab in the sense it was not filled with drug manufacturing tools. "There’s a …
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Holden School
132 W School St, Kent, OH
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Monday, December 5, 2011
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Some items suspected of being used to make methamphetamines were found on the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Sanford Avenue Nov. 30. Stow Police Det. Tom Gottas found three two-liter bottles in the street at the intersection just off of Darrow and Kent Roads. The bottles contained an unknown off-white substance with pieces of Lithium in it. The waste material was similar to what remains after making meth, according to the report. The Summit County Drug Unit Meth Response Team was called in to clean up the dump site and neutralize the waste material and dispose of it. There are no suspects at this time. Illegal manufacturing of drugs is a second-degree felony. For questions about this report, email Editor Amanda Harnocz.
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Teri Ashley
8:53 am on Sunday, April 21, 2013
Melissa you can snort it, you can shoot it and you can smoke it. There are new ways people are coming up with to make it but it is commonly known as the bathtub drug cause it is made with household chemicals and the new way is called the shake n bake method cause it doesn't take as many chemicals as the other way of making it. The dealer are selling it to people of all ages and it is becoming … more ›