From staff reports
PAINT TWP. – Nine out of 10 defendants charged with alleged involvement with a methamphetamine manufacturing lab in Toby Township waived their right to a preliminary hearing April 1.
The tenth defendant, Derick W. Fowler, 33, Rimersburg, asked for and was granted a continuance in his case after his lawyer was delayed in Pittsburgh and was unable to attend the scheduled hearing.
The other nine defendants in the case all waived their preliminary hearings during an all-day special session of Clarion County Central Court.
Waiving their right to a preliminary hearing were:
- Terry Lee McIntyre, 52, Rimersburg
- Chrystal Suzanne Best, 35, Rimersburg
- Kayla Ann Dunlap, 26, of Parker
- Joseph Alvin McIntyre, 22, Rimersburg
- Corrine Louise Klein, 31, Clarion
- John Samuel McIntyre, 24, Clarion
- Justin James McIntyre, 33, Rimersburg
- Tonya Jane Barger, 21, Rimersburg
- Ashley Nicole Thompson, 25, Rimersburg
Each defendant faces numerous and various charges after Clarion County Adult Probation Officer Jay Kerle and other probation officers March 1 went to 20 Best Road, Rimersburg, Toby Township, looking for Natasha Anthony.
Anthony was wanted on an arrest warrant for alleged probation violations.
State parole agents also went to the home to approve a home plan for Raymond McIntyre.
The state parole agent went to a mobile home on the property and knocked on the door but received no answer.
The agent could hear children in another trailer on the property.
According to court documents, Justin McIntyre exited on the nearby mobile homes. A second state parole agent approached Justin McIntyre.
Justin McIntyre is serving a sentence of state parole. The state parole agent performed a safety pat-down on Justin McIntyre and allegedly found a small vial containing white powder residue in Justin McIntyre’s pocket.
Law enforcement agents entered one of the mobile homes on the property and observed three Mason jars in plain view. The jars allegedly all contained white powder residue.
Officers also encountered Natasha Anthony in the home. Anthony allegedly told officers the white powder residue in the jars was methamphetamine.
Anthony allegedly told officers Terry McIntyre and Justin McIntyre had been manufacturing methamphetamine in different places on the property, saying sometimes they made the drug in different campers or trailers on the property.
Kerle found a white plastic bottle Anthony allegedly identified as a jug used to “gas the meth.”
Kerle also found plastic tubing and the cap to the white bottle in a bathroom.
Also found in the bathroom was a plastic green bottle containing while chunky substance.
Investigators obtained a search warrant for the property from District Judge Timothy P. Schill.
Investigators executed the search warrant and allegedly found several “one-pot” methamphetamine labs; methamphetamine oil; “gas generators;” Coleman cooking fuel; pill grinders; silver vials with white residue; drain cleaner; pseudoephedrine; and cut lithium batteries.
Investigators alleged all of the items are commonly used to manufacture methamphetamine.
District judges Schill and Jeff Miller presided over the proceedings.
The Clarion County District Attorney’s office was represented by district attorney Mark T. Aaron and assistant district attorneys Drew Welsh and Jacqueline Mizerock.
Each defendant’s case will now proceed to criminal conferences.
The date for Fowler’s delayed preliminary hearing has not been set.