MONTMORENCY COUNTY, MI – A Michigan man was arrested after police found a meth lab where “abnormally large” amounts of methamphetamine may have been produced.
Ebert Dempsey Weaver, 48, of Atlanta, Michigan has been charged with a slew of felonies after the Huron Undercover Narcotics Team (HUNT) executed a search warrant at a home on Pine Street just north of Atlanta on Aug. 5.
Methamphetamine is a highly addictive schedule one narcotic and is often manufactured clandestinely. The biproducts and items used in its production are hazardous waste which needs to be removed by specially trained responders and turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for disposal.
Charges against Weaver include possession of methamphetamine, maintaining a laboratory involving methamphetamine, operating a methamphetamine laboratory near specified places, maintaining a laboratory involving hazardous waste, manufacturing methamphetamine and purchasing/possessing pseudoephedrine to make methamphetamine.
Each charge has a second or subsequent offense notice which increases the severity of the sanctions. These charges are felonies and sanctions range from 5 years in prison and/or a $5,000 fine to 40 years in prison and/or a $200,000 fine.
Weaver was arraigned on Aug. 11. HUNT was assisted by deputies from the Montmorency County Sheriff’s Department, members of the Michigan State Police 7th District Meth Response Team and the Tri Town Fire Department.