Police: Pair Charged With Manufacturing Methamphetamine

A Mauldin man and a female accomplice from Greenville are facing charges stemming from the discovery last week of a clandestine meth lab inside a Mauldin home, Mauldin Police said.

Mauldin Police were helping the Greenville County Sheriff's Office serve an arrest warrant at 301 Hickory Lane in the Glendale II subdivision on May 8 when authorities found evidence of a methamphetamine lab that had been in operation in the recent past, said Mauldin Police Det. Ben Ford.

The street where the home is located was barricaded for hours while a specially trained meth lab crew cleaned up the toxic and potentially explosive site.

Ford said authorities not only found meth inside the home, but numerous items required to produce the deadly drug. Among the items found were propane gas cylinders, pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), various liquids, Coleman fuel, plastic tubing, syringes, spoons, coffee filters, lithium batteries, and Liquid Fire drain cleaner, Ford told Patch.

The lab was not active at the time, but Ford said such sites "are always a threat" to the occupants and surrounding homes due to the potentially deadly combination of the items found inside were they to get mixed.

While it's not uncommon for authorities to find meth labs in the city, Ford said he believed last week's discovery is the first he can remember this year. The man police arrested at the home also had been arrested and convicted in 2010 of operating a meth lab with a different female at 114 Bethel Drive, Ford said.

Arrested were 39-year-old James Ray Childs of Mauldin and 29-year-old Sabrina Propst Campbell of Greenville for meth possession and manufacturing meth. Campbell has since been released on bond, while Childs remains in the Greenville County Detention Center.