Man caught with remnants of meth lab in bag

RED BAY – A Red Bay man was arrested on drug charges Tuesday after authorities discovered the two duffle bags he was carrying down a city street contained the remnants of a meth lab.
Christopher Grimes, 26, 312 2nd Ave. N, Red Bay, was charged with unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, chemical endangerment of a child and two counts of first-degree manufacturing of a controlled substance, Red Bay Police Chief Janna Jackson said.
According to Jackson, officers received information that the two duffle bags Grimes was carrying down 5th Street Northeast on Tuesday could possibly be related to drugs.
Jackson said by the time officers caught up with Grimes, he was back at his parents’ residence where he lived with his two-year-old son.
“We questioned him at his residence and he admitted to us that there had been a meth lab in the duffle bag,” Jackson said. “He threw the bags in the woods and agreed to lead us to them.”
Jackson said officers found the cook-off and the remains from a meth lab in the bag.
She also said that while the officers were gone from the residence to search for the duffle bags, Grimes parents began to search the house for any other drug-related material.
“His parents had no idea until we showed up at the house that there was any kind of drug activity going on at all,” Jackson said. “When they were searching the house, they found some chemicals that had already been mixed and we retrieved those when we got back to the house as well as some drug paraphernalia.”
Jackson said even though the chemicals were located inside the residence, Grimes reportedly cooked the meth outside the home in a wooded area.