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Three Charged in Dallas Township Meth Bust

DALLAS TOWNSHIP — A drug bust Tuesday near Dallas was a part of a months-long investigation by the state attorney general’s office. Three people arr...

DALLAS TOWNSHIP -- A drug bust Tuesday near Dallas was a part of a months-long investigation by the state attorney general's office.

Three people arrested are facing several felony charges.

Authorities believe some of the ingredients used to make the drug could have resulted in an explosion.

Police say Wayne Wilson, Jay Carr, and Michelle Billets worked together to make methamphetamine in a quiet neighborhood near Dallas.

The place on Church Street was anything but quiet Tuesday as authorities raided the home and arrested the three suspects.

"It's just pretty shocking that even happened here," said resident Chris Edwards. "You think in the Back Mountain that would never happen."

Police discovered the meth lab during an ongoing investigation into meth manufacturers in Luzerne County. Police say Wilson and Carr lived in the home on Church Street and were the primary meth cooks. Billets, of Hop Bottom, supplied a medicine that's one of the main ingredients used to make the meth.

Dallas Township supervisor Elizabeth Martin believes it's the first meth lab discovered in the township.

"That is a really nice little neighborhood down there," Martin said. "I was very shocked to hear that we had something like this happen so close."

Wilson and Carr, the two men who lived in the home, also face charges of reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe. Police say Carr threw some of the evidence into a fireplace which could have led to an explosion.

"Yeah, real lucky with that," said Edwards. "Those houses are five feet apart from each other so could have caught the other houses, too."

Now the home is condemned. People who live in the Dallas area are thankful police took down the operation so quickly.

"You can drive around in this township like I do every day, and you could never know what goes inside a house," said code enforcement officer Carl Alber.

All three suspects remain locked up in the Luzerne County Jail.

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