POLICE HOLD SUSPECT IN DRUG BLAST; HOSPITAL REPORTED AIDING BURNED MAN.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A 43-year-old man suffered second-degree burns second-degree burn n. A burn that blisters the skin and is more severe than a first-degree burn. second-degree burn See Burn. to his neck, chest, arms and face Tuesday after a methamphetamine methamphetamine (mĕth'ămfĕt`əmēn): see amphetamine; methedrine. lab blew up in a mobile home, sheriff's officials said. Jeffrey Dale Welch, 43, of Long Beach was arrested at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital's emergency room, where he arrived by taxi after his shirt caught fire when chemicals splashed on him as he carried lab components, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. officials said. ``Somehow he made his chemicals wrong,'' said Deputy Gary Broady. ``It blew up on him.'' Hospital officials called authorities because Welch was uncooperative and gave conflicting accounts about how he claimed that he was burned when an automobile carburetor on which he was working caught fire, officials said. Deputies visited the mobile home in the 45100 block of 30th Street East and found several glass beakers, large coffee filters, and other chemicals used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant stimulant, any substance that causes an increase in activity in various parts of the nervous system or directly increases muscle activity. Cerebral, or psychic, stimulants act on the central nervous system and provide a temporary sense of alertness and well-being as . By the time deputies arrived, much of the lab had been dismantled, sheriff's officials said. ``The floor had been vacuumed but we could see the burn marks on the floor,'' said Broady. Officials also found about 2 grams of methamphetamine worth approximately $200. Deputies arrested Rebecca Isham, 40, of Lancaster on suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance controlled substance n. a drug which has been declared by federal or state law to be illegal for sale or use, but may be dispensed under a physician's prescription. , the same charge on which Welch was arrested. She was at the mobile home during the fire, called a taxi for Welch and cleaned up after he left, officials said. ``She put the fire out by tearing his shirt off,'' Broady said. ``He was too scared to (drive) to the hospital so she called him a taxi.'' Welch and Isham are both being held at the Lancaster sheriff's's station in lieu of $500,000 bail. |
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