GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — A woman is being held in Gaston County jail under a $1 million bond after a possible meth lab was busted on Ranlo Avenue.
Lauren Price, 25, was accused of buying pseudoephedrine 25 times from 2013 until April 25 to make meth.
Police said they stopped Lauren Price and her boyfriend, Tony Eller, for speeding Tuesday night and found the drugs in her car.
Officials said they obtained a warrant to Price's house and discovered a meth lab.
Price was arrested and faces 25 drug conspiracy charges.
Price and Eller had a plan to buy pseudoephedrine, an important ingredient for making meth, police said.
"They would alternate buying pseudoephedrine at different locations," Ranlo Police Department Chief Tim Anderson said.
They did it without triggering the system designed to catch people stockpiling the drug, according to warrants.
Price purchased the medication about once every couple of weeks from late 2013 until last week.
The couple made meth in a house in a quiet Ranlo neighborhood up the street from Edwina Capps.
"I think it's scary," Capps said.
Capps has come to terms with the fact that cancer will eventually take her life, but she doesn't want her last days with her family cut short by the hazardous flammable mixture two doors down.
"The fact that meth lab being down there affect everybody's breathing," Capps said.
Eller was arrested as an accomplice, officials said.
Neighbors told reporter Ken Lemon that the couple that live in the house have only lived there a couple of years and kept to themselves.
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