Lincolnton/Lincoln County Interagency Narcotics Unit and the SBI Shut Down the Same Meth Lab Location for the Second Time in the Last Two Months

July 9, 2008


Meth Lab Location on Otis Dellinger Road
Photo by:Jon Mayhew/The Carolina Scoop

LINCOLNTON -– Operating on a tip, narcotics investigators found evidence a meth lab had been operating at the same location where they shut it down two months ago. The location is near the end of Otis Dellinger Road where a Meth Lab was dismantled on May 6th. The officers found evidence today that meth lab activities had recently occurred there and asked a Superior Court Judge for a search warrant.

Armed with a search warrant, the investigators entered the building and found chemicals and other items used in the meth operation.

On May 5, LLCINU investigators and the SBI dismantled a meth lab in the garage which was located beside an unoccupied residence on Otis Dellinger Road. A Lincolnton man, Frank Edward Whitlock, 32, of that address was charged with manufacturing a controlled substance and possession of meth precursors. He was released at that time on a $9,500 secured bond.


Frank Edward Whitlock

Today, Whitlock was charged again with the same two charges: possession of methamphetamine precursors and manufacturing a controlled substance. He was taken before a Lincoln County Magistrate and placed in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under a $125,000 secured bond. He will have a first appearance in Lincoln County District Court Wednesday.