BPD arrests two residents for hotel meth lab

FROM IDS REPORTS

Bloomington Police arrested a man and a woman Feb. 18 after finding meth-making supplies in their hotel room.

Staff of the Country Hearth Inn on North Walnut Street called police because two people refused to leave their hotel room or pay for another day, Sgt. Scott Myers of the Bloomington Police Department said.

At about 2 p.m. police visited the hotel room of Shelly L. Richardson, 36, of Bloomington, and Kevin S. Ferguson, 40, of Springville, Ind.

Police noticed, in plain view inside a garbage can, residue, a water bottle with a hose attached and a can of paint thinner, Myers said.

The Indiana State Police’s Meth Suppression Task Force arrived and confirmed the items were used to make meth.

Police then learned Ferguson was wanted on a warrant for buying more than 3 grams of either ephedrine or pseudoephedrine or both within a week, a Class C misdemeanor.

Ferguson was arrested for the warrant, and both he and Richardson were arrested on preliminary charges of manufacturing meth within 1,000 feet of a park, a Class A felony.

—Nick Cusack