NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WVEC) — Members of local, state, and federal agencies spent hours at a home in Hidenwood Sunday after police officers found a possible meth lab there.
Master Police Officer Holly McPherson with the Newport News Police Department said that emergency dispatchers received a call about a home invasion in the first block of Middlesex Road shortly after 1 p.m. The caller said that someone had been shot.
When officers arrived at the home, they found a woman and 2 men who live there inside it. No one was hurt.
The officers also saw items that could be used to produce methamphetamine inside the house.
They cleared the people out of the home and requested help from the Newport News Fire Department’s Hazmat Team.
McPherson said members of the hazmat team, Newport News Police Department’s Organized Crime Division, and other agencies are continuing to investigate the situation involving the suspected meth operation. As part of that effort, investigators were questioning the people who live in the house.
Police also are looking into the claim made by the residents that they were victims of a home invasion.
“We have two female suspects and two male suspects that entered the residence,” explained McPherson. “One of the females was armed, so we are investigating that as a possible robbery.”
McPherson said police had not charged anyone in connection to either incident.
