Glenwood Herald

GLENWOOD – A routine traffic stop by a city police officer turned up a rolling meth lab, a first for this area.

On Friday, August 22, Glenwood officer Brad Murphree made a traffic stop on a gray late model Oldsmobile with a burned out headlight.

The driver of the vehicle, Madge Diggs, gave Murphree and officer Jeremy Collums, consent to search the vehicle.

Inside the vehicle, officers found a working meth lab, an HCL generator and the components for making methamphetamine.

Collums contacted the Drug Task Force, which responded and processed the vehicle.

Other items found inside the vehicle were, a white powder believed to be meth, marijuana, scales and syringes.

Diggs was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. She was taken to the Pike County Jail where she was arraigned on the charges on August 26.

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