City woman held for meth manufacture

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, March 10, 2009

A Vicksburg woman was in the Warren County Jail this morning for possession of chemicals for cooking methamphetamine.

Terry Hughes, 25, 106 Pinehurst St., was arrested by the Warren County Sheriff’s Department Monday afternoon at an apartment at 225 Cain Ridge Road. Sheriff Martin Pace said she apparently was staying with a friend, who had not been charged.

Deputies were looking for Hughes on a warrant from an earlier meth violation, at an apartment on U.S. 61 North, when she was found Monday, Pace said.

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Components of a lab to manufacture meth were found in the Cain Ridge apartment, said Pace.

Hughes is charged with two counts of possession of precursor chemicals and manufacturing meth, said Pace.

She was being held without bond pending a hearing this afternoon, said Pace.

It was the second time in a week a meth-cooking operation was found in an apartment complex.

Methamphetamine is a highly volatile drug that requires heat for manufacturing.

City woman held in 2008 burglary

A Vicksburg woman was arrested at 3:43 this morning in a Jackson Street burglary that occurred more than a year ago.

Tiffany Evans, 30, 2303 Sherman Ave., was identified by a police officer as sitting in a vehicle in front of an apartment complex located at 1501 Martin Luther King Drive.

She was arrested in the January 2008 burglary of a home in the 1400 block of Jackson Street.

An arrest warrant had been issued for her arrest last year, said Sgt. Sandra Williams of the Vicksburg Police Department.

The victim reported Evans had burglarized her home and stolen jewelry and firearms, said Williams.

Evans was being held at the Vicksburg Police Department this morning, said Williams.