Meth lab busted

Jefferson county sheriff’s deputies arrested a man and woman today on charges of operating a meth lab. The narcotics unit found the lab in the Crosston community just outside of Morris.

When deputies arrived Mary Marlowe tried to flee out a back door with a meth pipe. Phillip Moore was found next to an active meth lab that was generating dangerous and toxic smoke causing a potential hazard to the deputies and a child. Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Randy Christian says the child has been turned over to relatives and DHR will be notified for furher investigation.

Phillip Thomas Moore and Mary Elizabeth Marlowe were cooking and using the drug in a shed not far from their house in the 7300 block of Narrows Cut Off road.
Moore is being held on $80,000 bond on charges of manufacturing and trafficking of methamphetamine, drug possession and chemical endangerment of a child.
Marlowe is being held on $30,000 bond on charges of drug possession and chemical endangerment of a child.