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Cops Bust Meth Lab at Funeral Home

Updated 11:31 AM EDT, Fri, Jan 9, 2009

It's a dead man's party no longer for a funeral home employee accused of setting up a meth lab.
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It's a dead man's party no longer for a funeral home employee accused of setting up a meth lab.

 

A funeral home might be a place for eternal rest, but police say an Arkansas man saw an opportunity to build a methamphetamine lab undisturbed by the living.

There was just one problem—the funeral home was across the street from the sheriff's office.

Officers say Robert Lee Lewis left the light on in the basement of the Higginbotham Funeral Home in Walnut Ridge on Dec. 3. Officers noticed the light on after hours and walked into the funeral home through an open door.

Inside, police say they found all the components necessary to build a meth lab. Officers arrested the former funeral home employee when he returned.

The 43-year-old faces several drug charges and is free on $2,500 bond pending a Jan. 21 court hearing.

A telephone number for Lewis could not be found Thursday night.

Copyright Associated Press

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  • K Tuesday, Jan 13 at 2:52 AM FLAG COMMENT Um M M - "anyone buying certain over-the-counter cough meds have to show ID" - that's a nationwide federal law - so whatever store is selling it to you without making you show id & sign is breaking a federal law & it's not just cough medicine, it's any medicine that has certain ingredients in it, certain allergy medicines you have to sign for as well as others
  • Anonymous Monday, Jan 12 at 8:25 PM FLAG COMMENT Gives a new meaning to more BANG for your buck!!!!
  • Anonymous Monday, Jan 12 at 8:24 PM FLAG COMMENT I used to work there (for a short time) Got out of there as soon as I could find another job. Two of the owners died young and the legacy of their drug marketing goes on. Nothing like having a casket full of weed in a hurse with a police escort through town. Lots of strange goings on there...and YES one of the prior owners was a necrophiliac. Their mother still has the place and funerals go on every day. Boy if those walls co ... MORE >
  • andy Saturday, Jan 10 at 6:36 PM FLAG COMMENT Straight out of Miami Vice..copy cat crimes.
  • Bob Graham Saturday, Jan 10 at 6:13 PM FLAG COMMENT PERFECT Strange odors are around 24 / 7 and many meth odors are not strange to a funeral home. Good for us non tweakers is the fact that these tweakers do stupid things like use meth and leave lights on. LMFAO

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