Five charged with making methamphetamine

By April M. Silvaggio  

JANUARY 18, 2010 9:45 a.m. (0)

If only she had gone to court.

But 34-year-old Tracy Denise Hollingsworth didn’t.

And when Greenville County deputies went to her Piedmont home to deliver an arrest warrant charging Hollingsworth with failing to appear before a judge on a shoplifting charge, her trouble with the law got worse.

As deputies were taking Hollingsworth into custody, they saw items  inside her home commonly used in making methamphetamines, according to an incident report.

Those could be items such as cans of starter fluid, brick or driveway cleaner and lye, as well as nasal inhalers, eye droppers, glass bottles, coffee filters and cotton, all together within a close proximity.

Investigators from the agency’s Vice & Narcotics Unit were called to Hollingsworth’s home.

They believe they found a small to medium methamphetamine lab, that had been up and running for some time.

Along with Hollingsworth, deputies arrested and charged 29-year-old Cliffton Charles Allison, 34-year-old James Anthony Lusk, 28-year-old Ricky Lee Horne and 28-year-old Amanda Rose Fowler, all of Piedmont, with manufacturing methamphetamines and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Before any of them were taken to the Greenville County Detention Center, all had to be decontaminated by deputies and firefighters, who set up a washing area on site.

A crew contracted through the Drug Enforcement Administration will clean up the location and remove hazardous materials.

Lusk faces an additional charge of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.