West Columbia Police Find Suspected Meth Lab in Storage Unit

West Columbia Police found a meth lab Thursday while conducting an investigation into larcenies at a local laundromat.

According to Chief Dennis Tyndall, officers were following up on arrests made Wednesday of three suspects they say broke into coin machines at Mable’s Laundry located on Platt Springs Road in January.

As part of the ongoing investigation, police say a search warrant was conducted on a storage unit on Airport Boulevard that was leased by one of the subjects.

When officers entered the storage unit, they smelled a chemical odor and found items consistent with manufacturing methamphetamine.

Police arrested Danny Ray Suggs, 36, of West Columbia; Michael William Meetze, 29, of Lexington; and Christina Annette Bryant, 21, of Gaston, in connection to the larcenies that occured Jan. 19, 23 and 31.

Suggs (pictured) was charged with three counts of petty larceny and three counts of malicious damage to property.

Meetze was charged with one count of petty larceny.

Bryant was charged with one count of petty larceny and one count of malicious damage of property. 

Charges for the meth lab are pending.