Cedar Rapids Police Find Mobile Meth Lab Inside Stolen Pickup

By Jeff Raasch, Reporter

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Story Created: Sep 7, 2010 at 2:04 PM CST

Story Updated: Sep 7, 2010 at 3:33 PM CST

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Police discovered a man who they say was making methamphetamine in a stolen pickup Monday morning.

An employee at Guppy’s on the Go, 235 Edgewood Rd. NW, called police around 7:20 a.m. Monday to report a man who appeared to be sleeping in a pickup in the parking lot. When officers arrived, they identified the man as Jerry L. Lown, Jr., 42, of Cedar Rapids.

Sgt. Cristy Hamblin, a police spokeswoman, said Lown had lithium, anhydrous ammonia and pseudoephedrine and drug paraphernalia in the pickup.

“He was already making most of the (methamphetamine),” Hamblin said. “He was in the final stages.

An officer looked up information using the license plate and vehicle identification numbers and discovered the pickup had been stolen from Johnson County. Lown had also stolen the license plates from different vehicle, Hamblin said.

Lown was charged Monday with manufacturing a controlled substance, three counts of possession of precursors, and second-degree theft for the stolen pickup. He remains in the Linn County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail.

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