Police have arrested several area residents in connection with what officers are calling a conspiracy to manufacture the drug methamphetamine.
On April 17, officers of the Carter County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant at 191 Cash Hollow Road and reported finding a meth lab inside the home. Officers arrested the resident, 28-year-old Samantha McKinley, and charged her with promotion of methamphetamine manufacture and maintaining a dwelling where narcotics are sold or manufactured.
During the search of the home, officers found a ledger kept by McKinley detailing meth making activity in the home. It listed the names of several individuals involved.
After looking at evidence collected from the home and speaking with witnesses, CCSD Investigator Harmon Duncan obtained warrants for others who allegedly took part in manufacturing the drug. In the warrants, Duncan alleges that Mark Aaron Mounts, 23, who also lived at 191 Cash Hollow Road at the time of the raid, would conduct the actual methamphetamine cook while others would supply him with the pseudoephedrine necessary to manufacture the drug.
The following individuals have been arrested in the past few days and charged in connection with the investigation into drug activity at 191 Cash Hollow Road.
t Mark Aaron Mounts, 23, 982 Dillon Road, Mountain City, was arrested Saturday on warrants charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and five counts of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. He is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $50,000 bond.
t Amy Church, 27, 226 Swimming Pool Road, Hampton, was arrested Monday on warrants charging her with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and three counts of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. She is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.
t Dale Robert Blevins, 32, 226 Swimming Pool Road, Hampton, was arrested Monday on a warrant charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and two counts promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. He is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.
t Katherine Deitering, 34, 403 Wall St., Johnson City, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging her with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. She is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.
t Tommie Michelle Dixon, 38, 651 Stout Road, Mountain City, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging her with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and two counts of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. She is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.
t Travis Matthew Johnson, 29, 2294 Cold Springs Road, Mountain City, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and 2 counts promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. He is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $25,00 bond.
t Shea Freeman, 22, 1473 Swift Hollow Road, Mountain City, was arrested Tuesday by officers of the CCSD and charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and promotion of methamphetamine manufacture. She is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.
t Daniel Ray Allmon, 28, 211 Jenkins Hollow Road, Elizabethton, was arrested Monday on warrants charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and four counts of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture.
He is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on a $30,000 bond.
Allmon, Blevins and Church appeared in Carter County General Sessions Court on Tuesday for arraignment while Deitering, Dixon, Freeman, Johnson and Mounts were arraigned on Wednesday. All eight are scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court again on June 9.