Woman Arrested After Drugs, Weapons Found At LaFayette House, Storage Area

  • Monday, September 10, 2018

After a lengthy investigation, agents with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force, along with officers with the LaFayette Police Department and the Walker County Sheriff's Department, found a large amount of drugs and weapons at a LaFayette house.

 

A search warrant at 3 Morning Side Dr., yielded over a kilogram of methamphetamine, numerous firearms, and a large amount of cash.

 

A subsequent search warrant was executed later in the evening in a storage unit associated with the suspect, located at 1897 North Main St., LaFayette.

The storage unit was found to contain a "Conversion-Lab", where suspected ethamphetamine was being converted to crystal from a liquid state. The lab also yielded at least a kilogram of methamphetamine.

 

Estimated potential street value of the suspected methamphetamine is over $120,000.

 

Arrested was 33-year-old Angela Michelle Hughes.

 

The case is still under investigation, and additional arrests are expected.

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