Warren police charge man and woman after finding apparent meth lab in house

Staff report

WARREN

Jacob Bradfield and Amber Homan are charged with possessing chemicals used to make drugs after police found them running from an Oak Street Southwest house that apparently was being used as a methamphetamine lab.

Bradfield, 33, of Shalom Avenue Northwest, and Homan, of Ward Street Northwest, are each charged with illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, breaking and entering and obstructing official business.

Both were arraigned Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court and ordered held in the Trumbull County Jail without eligibility to make bond. Not-guilty pleas were entered on the felonies, and they pleaded not guilty on the charge of obstructing official business.

Police were called to a house in the 1700 block Monday because the caller thought people had broken in and started living in her friend’s house. The friend had gone out of town.

When police arrived, they saw a man and woman running in the backyard. Police caught up to them and identified them as Bradfield and Homan, who said they paid a man who was cutting grass there $250 to stay there. They did not have keys to the house.

Officers went inside and found open packages of pseudoephedrine on the kitchen counter, a Mason jar with dried white residue on it, two 2-liter bottles with white residue on them, and a 2-liter bottle that police said appeared to be a “one-pot cooking method used to produce methamphetamine.”