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Santa Rosa Man Gets 10 Years For Truck Meth Lab
February 1, 2013
Wayne Mitchell Powers of Milton was sentenced Wednesday by Circuit Judge David Rimmer to 10 years in state prison after he was caught with a portable methamphetamine lab in his truck.
On June 15, 2012, a detective with the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit conducted a traffic stop on Powers, whose driver’s license was suspended at the time.
During the stop, Powers admitted that there was a methamphetamine lab in the truck. Members of the Narcotics Unit searched the truck and located a portable meth lab. Upon further investigation, investigators discovered that during the month of June 2012, Powers and his co-defendants had also purchased numerous items used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine, including Coleman fuel, drain cleaner, plastic tubing and pseudoephedrine.
Powers was also sentenced on Wednesday in two other cases involving the possession of methamphetamine. These cases were investigated by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Department.
Judge David Rimmer sentenced Powers to 10 years state prison in one case and five years state prison in the other. All three sentences were ordered to run concurrent with one another.
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