Two men are in custody after a search of a Dewey residence on Wednesday revealed what investigators are calling a shake and bake meth lab.
Dewey resident Darrell Dewayne Brodrick, 52, and Ramona resident Kenneth James Pierce, 57, face charges of maintaining a residence where drugs are used, stored or kept.
During Wednesday's arraignments at the Washington County Courthouse, Associate District Judge Russell Vaclaw found probable cause for their arrests and set Brodrick's bond at $75,000 and Pierce's at $500,000.
According to the probable cause affidavit, at around 6:20 a.m. on Nov. 11, the 11th Judicial Drug Task Force, in conjunction with members of law enforcement from the Washington County Sheriff's Office and the Bartlesville Police Department, served a search warrant on a residence located on the 396800 block of West 1350 Drive in Dewey.
The report said the search of the residence together with the evidence seized and the interrogation of Brodrick "indicate the location was used for the manufacture, distribution and usage of methamphetamine."
Seized from the home were a bag containing a two-liter bottle with an off-white substance and a hose which "indicate the manufacture of methamphetamine" via the "one pot," or, more commonly known "shake bake" method, said the report.
In the home's living room where Pierce was staying and near his clothing was found ina pill bottle a substance believed to be methamphetamine and a straw "commonly used for snorting methamphetamine", according to the affidavit.
Investigators also found in a bedroom, said to belong to another housemate, glass pipes with blackened ends, glass dishes with white residue, "numerous' syringes, cellophane bags with white residue, coffee filters and grinders, ammonia nitrate, a hot-plate, glass jar with a liquid, a Dr. Pepper bottle with a blue liquid, a Coleman fuel can and a spray bottle containing what investigators believe was sulfuric acid -- commonly used to extract methamphetamine from liquid, said the report. Both liquids had samples taken for lab tests.
The report said Brodrick told investigators he is a methamphetamine user and has lived for 6-8 years at the residence of which he claimed to be owner, but said the residence is in his mother's name.
He told investigators a housemate has performed "cooking of methamphetamine" at his residence and said the housemate had been living with him for about two weeks. Asked about Pierce, Brodrick said he had met Pierce the day before and, as Pierce had no place to stay, let Pierce stay at his residence. Asked if Pierce had been to the residence before, Brodrick answered no, to which the investigator said Pierce had been at the residence on Nov. 1, according to the affidavit.
The report said Brodrick told investigators he has given Pierce and two other housemates rides to different locations and denied the methamphetamine in the living room belonging to him.
According to the affidavit, investigators found a cellphone in the living room with the initials "KP," for Kenneth Pierce, bearing text messages indicating that Pierce "solicited, planned and provided information in regards to the consumption, distribution and manufacture of methamphetamine..."
Investigators seized in Brodrick's room two pipes "used in conjuction with smoking maurijuana and that of methamphetamine," said the report.
All the items seized containing what was believed to be a controlled substance will be sent to the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation for identification, said the report.
