As Deputy David Kitchens of the Logan County Sheriff's Department approached Schochoh Crop Service around 10:50 p.m., he observed a vehicle stopped in the roadway with its lights off.
Kitchens then advised Adairville Police Chief Jimmy Phelps; as the two pursued the vehicle into Simpson County, the subjects threw a large propane tank from the driver's side window.
The subjects then lost control of the vehicle in an open field and continued southward on B. Ruley Road until they pulled into an open drive and fled the vehicle on foot.
Kitchens and Phelps pursued the subjects on foot and apprehended them.
Douglas Ray Cropper Jr., 26, and Jennifer Lynn Sears, 21, both of Russellville, were arrested and lodged in the Logan County Jail on charges of theft of anhydrous ammonia, fleeing/evading police in the first and second degree, possession of methamphetamines, manufacturing methamphetamines, carrying a concealed deadly weapon and possession of marijuana.
A later search of the vehicle recovered a mobile methamphetamine lab, a handgun, another propane tank and methamphetamine, marijuana and numerous other items used in the manufacture of methamphetamines.
Furthermore, it was later determined that Cropper had been released on bond earlier that day in Warren County on methamphetamine-related charges.
Deputy Larry Christie and Sheriff Wallace Whittaker of the Logan County Sheriff's Department assisted at the scene, as did numerous units from the Simpson County Sheriff's Department.
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