Ottis Jefferson Smith (Source: Florence County Sheriff's Office)
Shirley Daniel (Source: Florence County Sheriff's Office)FLORENCE
COUNTY, SC (WMBF) The Florence County Sheriff's Office has arrested two
individuals after raiding what they called a ‘shake and bake' meth lab in a Pee
Dee motel room.
Captain
Michael Nunn, spokesman for the Florence County Sheriff's Office, says Narcotics
Investigators raided the motel on West Lucas Street in Florence Thursday night,
and subsequently found a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory using a ‘one
pot' or ‘shake and bake' method to produce the drugs.
Officers
arrested 31-year-old Ottis Jefferson Smith of Florence and 31-year-old Shirley
Daniel of Columbia. Smith and Daniel are charged with manufacture, distribution
of methamphetamine, and manufacture, possession of schedule V drugs with intent
to distribute.
Those charges,
Nunn said, could result in a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, a fine of
$25,000 or both.
Nunn added
that these ‘shake and bake' operations are highly mobile, difficult to locate,
but makes it easier and faster to produce meth. It also significantly increases
the danger of fiery explosions.
"The
manufacturers of this drug place themselves and anyone else nearby at risk of
injury and death every time one of these labs is operated," Sheriff Kenney
Boone stated. "In addition, meth is one
of the most addictive drugs available. Congratulations to our deputies for removing this threat from our
community."
Smith and
Daniel are being held at the Florence County Detention Center awaiting a bond
hearing.
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