Guilty plea in local meth case

A Haleyville man accused of manufacturing methamphetamine pleaded guilty last Wednesday to drug charges, Franklin County District Attorney Joey Rushing said.
Timothy Keith Barnett, 43, 1281 Winston 196, Haleyville, pleaded guilty to second-degree unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance and received a 15-year suspended sentence and five years of probation.
Barnett was arrested on the original charges in June of 2010 when officers with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department and the Phil Campbell Police Department executed a search warrant at 623 Hagood St. in Phil Campbell.
Officers had received a call notifying them of a potential meth lab inside the garage at the residence and when officers arrived on the scene, they found Barnett, along with three co-defendants.
Officers discovered the four defendants had two ounces of liquid meth, two grams of crystallized meth, a 12-gauge shotgun, two active meth labs and multiple substances and items used in the making of methamphetamine.