Meth-Making Tools Lead To Arrest

Thu., Aug. 24, 2000

By Trinity Hartman trinityh@spokesman.com

Spokane County sheriff’s deputies on Monday arrested a man carrying a backpack filled with tools for making methamphetamine.

Inside the blue backpack deputies found instructions for making the drug methamphetamine, along with glass beakers, latex gloves, plastic tubes, matches, a pH tester and red phosphorous, all of which are used to make the drug, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.

The backpack was seized as evidence and was taken to the Public Safety Building to be decontaminated, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Cpl. David Reagan said.

A deputy was checking the Goodwill drop-off site at Pines and Main at 2:30 a.m. Monday. He saw a man biking away from the site with what appeared to be a full backpack and stopped to question him.

The bicyclist said he was just riding around the area, according to the Sheriff’s Office report.

When asked by the deputy whether he had any weapons, the man said he had several pocket knives. The deputy allegedly found a glass pipe with methamphetamine residue in the man’s right front pocket as well as the drug lab items in the backpack.

Frank W. Wood, 30, 5123 S. Napa, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and released.

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