3 arrested on meth charges

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April 29, 2009

Anonymous The Times-Tribune Wed Apr 29, 2009, 09:07 AM EDT

Times-Tribune Staff Report

Three East Bernstadt men were arrested on meth charges after police raided their homes early Wednesday morning.

According to a release from the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department, the three men also fled into a wooded area when police approached the scene.

Michael Santos, Steven Simpson, and Freddy Scalf were all arrested on charges of manufacturing meth, possession of meth, fleeing and evading police and resisting arrest. Lantos was also arrested on an unrelated felony warrant.

In the release Sheriff Fred Yaden said deputies from his department, UNITE officers, London Police Department officers and Kentucky State Police executed the search warrants on the residences at around midnight on Wednesday.

Police found “numerous items used in the manufacture of meth” and an undisclosed amount of meth in the men’s residences in East Bernstadt.

Sheriff Yaden said the three men had been working together producing and selling the meth. Yaden said he could not comment on how police discovered the operation.

A fourth man was also arrested during the execution of the search warrants. Aaron Simpson was charged with trafficking marijuana.

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