Two men were in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, the first in the county “in a while,” after their arrest Wednesday evening by Warren County sheriff’s deputies.

Jeffrey Kackley, 29, 7093 U.S. 61 South, and Joseph DeMarco, 46, of Eight Mile, Ala., also are each accused of possession of precursors to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said. They were being held without bond pending an initial appearance in justice court.

Pace said the two were arrested after an investigator and patrol deputies responding to a call that someone had been injured while making the drug at a home on Harley D Drive, off Fisher Ferry Road in south Warren County, discovered the lab and the precursors.

He said the deputies were met by a relative of Kackley’s, who took them to a small trailer on one side of the house. The deputies knocked on the door, and smelled ether, a meth ingredient.

Kackley was arrested after deputies found a small amount of marijuana in his pants pocket, and they detained DeMarco in the trailer and got a search warrant. A search of the trailer revealed chemicals to make meth, and a shake-and-bake meth lab was found outside the trailer. Deputies also recovered a .38-caliber revolver and a rifle.

He said neither man admitted to being injured, and no injuries were visible.

“This is the first working meth lab that we’ve uncovered in a while,” Pace said. “Meth used to be our No. 1 drug problem, but it has decreased significantly since the Legislature put pseudoephedrine on prescription. It has made a difference.”