Bond set at $100,000 in mobile meth lab bust

CAMPBELL — Bond was set at $100,000 in Campbell Municipal Court on Tuesday for the man and woman charged with operating a mobile meth lab.

Jeremy T. Bowker, 30, of Rogers, and Jean Ann Hartzell, 36, of Pittsburgh, were cited for a host of felony charges including the illegal manufacture of drugs, the illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, assault on police officers, possession of criminal tools and possession of drugs.

Hartzell was also charged with possession of drug abuse instruments, a second-degree misdemeanor, while Bowker was additionally cited for failing to stop at a stop sign and for driving an unsafe vehicle.

Hartzell and Bowker will appear again in city court on Dec. 3 for a preliminary hearing and pretrial.

The two are living in Rogers.

Bowker and Hartzell were stopped at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday for a moving violation at Reed Avenue and 11th Street.

Storm, the city's police dog, then indicated the presence of narcotics in the car's trunk. 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.