Meth lab raided in home with three kids

EAST LIVERPOOL — A methamphetamine lab raided this week is the fifth known to have been operating in Columbiana County since 2003.

“You know it’s getting worse,” Dan Downard, director of the Columbiana County Drug Task Force, said Friday of the drug problem in the county.

The members of the county drug task force along with representatives of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, the county sheriff’s office, East Liverpool police and the East Liverpool Fire Department, took part in the raid Thursday morning.

Authorities said two people, Matthew Steiner, 36, and his wife, Christy Steiner, 30, were arrested at 729 Avondale St.

They were charged with illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, a third-degree felony.

Two of the three children in the family were at school during the raid.

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