Prestonsburg police didn’t have to go far for a drug bust Thursday morning.
A trip to the police station for an impounded car turned into a criminal investigation for a mother and son and 2 others around 2 a.m. when police noticed something unusual about the group
“When your own 911 dispatch, who’s your life line out here, on the road yells at you at the radio ‘hey something’s not right with these people in the parking lot,” said Officer Ross Shurtleff.
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When officers took a closer look at the vehicle they said, in clear sight, they could see an active meth lab inside a water bottle “cooking” between the feet of Dwight Collins.
“That’s just insane why would anyone go to a police station and do that?” asked Brittany Dixon, store clerk.
But when Officer Shurtleff asked Collins what he had, he said Collins lied.
“It’s a bottle of water was the response I got and as we all know water doesn’t arc,” said Officer Shurtleff.
According the arrest citation, police said the meth lab was “omitting a distinct and disturbing odor”.
“I even tried to explain it in a way of ‘who would cook meth in a police parking lot?'” said Officer Shurtleff.
But there’s more, some also had several other forms of drugs on them so the Prestonsburg police parking lot was transformed into a decontamination area.
Connie Collins, her son Dwight Collins, Britney Owsley and Justin Horner were all taken to the Floyd County Detention Center where they face several drug related charges.
“I have to admit this took me by a little bit of surprise,” said Officer Shurtleff
But others who live in Prestonsburg said it was an eye-opener about their community.
“This is a little small town you don’t really hear about it much,” Dixon said. “But it’s definitely something to think about.”
Officer Shurtleff said he had arrested Collins the previous night and Owsley had an active arrest warrant.
