Chemical Smells Lead to Meth-Making in Johnson City

Johnson City Police say a strong smell of chemicals and suspicious activity around an apartment house on Endicott Avenue are responsible for tipping off witnesses who, then tipped off police to the location of a methamphetamine lab.

Village Police at 7:38 p.m. Saturday, April 2 they investigated those tips and stopped a vehicle believed to be driven by the suspect.

Officers smelled chemicals and found a one-pot mobile meth lab active in the vehicle.

The Johnson City Fire Department and the New York State Police Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team were also called in to deal with the highly volatile bottle of liquid meth cooking in the car.

36 year old Trisha Race, who lists no permanent address, is charged with felony criminal possession of a controlled substance and felony unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine.

Police say, in addition to the methamphetamine recovered from the vehicle, they found more expended components of a meth lab at the multi-family apartment building.

Race was sent to the Broome County Jail without bail.