While following up on a missing person report, the Cannon County Sheriff’s Department stumbled upon another meth lab. According to Investigator Anthony Young, the Sheriff’s Department were following up on a missing person’s whereabouts Sunday after receiving a tip that the person had been seen at a birthday party Saturday at 7171 Hollow Springs Road. After receiving permission to do a search of the property, Sheriff’s Deputy Randy Neal walked into a shed on the property and found remnants of a meth lab. Deputy Neal then called Investigator Young, Sheriff Darrell Young and Deputy Travis Turney. In turn they found a one pot meth lab and all the makings for another full meth lab. The residents of the house, Shelia Rains, and Ashley Pope. Ashley Nicole Pope was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine. She also had a capias for her arrest for failure to appear from an earlier court date. Bond was set at $106,000. Shelia Rains was charged with possession of a schedule II drug, possession of drug paraphernalia. manufacturing methamphetamine, initiating the process to manufacture methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling to manufacture methamphetamine. Bond was set at $170,000. They are scheduled to appear in court July 12th.The missing person was later located at a restaurant alongside Jim Cummings Hwy Sunday.
