COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A methamphetamine bust Thursday in Branch County’s Girard Township with a husband and wife arrested and it happened almost right on cue considering what Sheriff John Pollack told the Township Supervisor’s Association earlier this week. Sheriff’s Deputies got a lead that there was meth manufacturing happening on property at 145 West County Line Road. Yesterday afternoon, deputies spoke to the couple living there and then after securing a warrant, searched the premises and discovered an active methamphetamine lab in a shed. They say they also found components to make meth and evidence that manufacturing of the drug had been on-going.
A prolonged clean-up and investigation continued until early this morning. The Coldwater Fire Department assisted deputies. A 44-year old man was arrested on a meth manufacturing charge and his 41-year old wife taken to the county jail on an outstanding warrant.
Sheriff Pollack told Township Supervisors on Monday that meth has been making a comeback of sorts in the last couple of months, adding it surprises him a bit because heroin is cheap and many that have been hooked on meth have graduated, so to speak, to heroin.
