Meth-lab bottle nets Sebring man 4 years in prison

YOUNGSTOWN — A Sebring man who left behind a portable, reusable methamphetamine lab in a bottle at a village convenience store has been sentenced to the mandatory minimum prison term of four years and fined the mandatory minimum $10,000 fine.

Justen M. Warner, 30, of East Oregon Avenue, Sebring, drew the sentence today from Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Warner was sentenced immediately after he pleaded guilty as charged to illegal manufacture of drugs on a public premises and illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs.

Warner forgetfully left a portable meth lab in a bottle on an ice-cream freezer at Circle K last Nov. 1, and, hours later, children moved it to get to the ice cream, said Jennifer McLaughlin, an assistant county prosecutor.

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