Crime & Safety
Meth Makers Caught Cooking During Drive Around Joliet: Cops
A man and woman were locked up in the county jail after deputies caught them cooking methamphetamine in a soda bottle, police said.
Ashley O’Connell, 26, was driving a Chevy Impala with an invalid registration when she was stopped on Doris Avenue near Gardner Street about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
O’Connell and two passengers — 37-year-old Anthony Gomez and an unidentified woman — were reportedly ordered out of the car and deputies took a look inside.
“A search of the vehicle revealed a sealed plastic Pepsi bottle with unknown chemicals inside and a nylon bag containing drain cleaner, Sudafed, a cold pack, and ziplock baggies,” police said. Deputies also reportedly located a plastic bag of suspected methamphetamine.
“At this time deputies believed that the contents located inside the vehicle were used in the production of methamphetamine,” police said, and then they figured the stuff in the soda bottle was actually in the middle of cooking and was “potentially unstable.”
The Joliet Fire Department and the state police Methamphetamine Response Team were called in due to the potential danger.
O’Connell and Gomez were both taken to the Will County jail. The second woman was not arrested.
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