Monroe County and Sweetwater Police officers  have made several meth arrests, including one involving someone using the "one-pot" method to make the drug.

Monroe County Sheriff's Drug Officer Conway Mason arrested Cory Thomas, 21, Beaty's Chapel Road, Tellico Plains,  after he and fellow officers Bill Johnson and Ben Baker received permission to search Thomas' house Tuesday.

Mason said officers found two coffee filters containing a substance thought to be methamphetamine. Thomas admitted he had been cooking meth and what was in the coffee filters was the leftovers.
Thomas is charged with possession of methamphetamine.
Mason also arrested Valerie Mitchell Bivens, 39, at her home on Highway 360 on meth related charges.

Mason said officers had received reports meth was being made at the house and after Bivens gave them permission to search the house, they discovered a metal tin containing substance thought to be marijuana and a plastic bag containing a white powder thought to be methamphetamine.
Bivens is charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana.

Sweetwater Detective Marty Kyle made a meth related arrest Tuesday night after he stopped a car on Old Highway 68 for driving on the wrong side of the road.
Kyle said he saw a Gatorade bottle on the floor of the car that appeared to be being used for the "one-pot method" of making meth.

The driver of the car, Tony Lynn Carver, 43, Athens, gave permission to have the car searched and Kyle found four more one-pot labs in the car along with plastic tubing, ammonia nitrate, fertilizer, Coleman fuel, coffee filters and digital scales.

Carver is charged with the manufacture of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Kyle said the suspect might have other charges coming because three of the five labs were active while he was driving.

Kyle said police had to shut down the road because of the danger, so SPD is working with the district attorney to see if a reckless endangerment charge would apply.

michael.thomason@advocateanddemocrat.com | 442-4575