Meth lab suspects scheduled for court


November 25, 2013 at 12:30p.m.

Meth lab suspects scheduled for court

CAMPBELL — The two suspects arrested Saturday in connection with operating a mobile meth lab in the trunk of a car will appear in Campbell Municipal Court at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Both Jeremy T. Bowker, 30, of Rogers, and Jean Ann Hartzell, 36, of Pittsburgh, face a host of felony charges, including the illegal manufacture of drugs, the illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for manufacture of drugs, and assault on an officer. The two are living in Rogers.

Bowker and Hartzell were stopped at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday for failing to stop at a stop sign at Reed Avenue and 11th Street.

Storm, the city’s police dog, then indicated that he detected narcotics in the car’s trunk — in which police found materials used in the cold-cooking process of making crystal meth.

Patrolman Robert Curtis was knocked to the ground by the fumes. He and the two other officers with him — Eric Manning and Dave Smith — were decontaminated in a Mahoning County HazMat tent, then treated, along with the two suspects, at St. Elizabeth Health Center.