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Exploding meth lab sends man to hospital
A man was taken to the hospital and then on to the Laurel County Detention Center Sunday after a meth lab he’d been allegedly cooking exploded on him.
Kentucky State Police troopers responded to a call about 10:25 a.m. Sunday about a one-step meth lab at a home on Boardwalk Circle in East Bernstadt. Kenneth J. Parsons, 36, apparently tried to hide the lab as officers responded.
“They were approaching in their vehicles,” Trooper First Class Don Trosper said. “That’s when he went to do the concealment. That’s when the bottle exploded on him.”
Parsons was injured in the process.
“His hands had chemical site-burns,” Trosper said. “They were, according to the officer, bleeding.”
Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management Director Zach Bryson was called to deal with the mess.
“We had to rinse the contamination from the subject,” he said. “Where he had the one-step meth lab on him, we had to, in a sense, just cleanse it from his body. We have suits that we give to people after they have been decontaminated, they kind of look like hospital scrubs, and that’s what he changed into.”
Parsons was brought to Saint Joseph-London, where he was treated and released.
Police also found Lavonna S. Wolf, 26, inside the Boardwalk Circle home.
She also was charged with first-degree manufacturing methamphetamine.
Trooper Lloyd Cochrane is continuing his investigation. He was assisted at the scene by Trooper Staci Walker, Trooper Delzie Kelly, Trooper Jason McCowan, KSP CVE Charles Garland, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, the Laurel County Department of Public Safety, the East Bernstadt Fire Department and the Laurel County Fire Department.
Parsons and Wolf are both being lodged in the Laurel County Detention Center on $25,000 cash bond.
In other news:
• On Sunday evening, KSP troopers responded to a call about a couple fighting on Douglas Boulevard in southern Laurel County. When they arrived, they found the couple in the bedroom, along with two one-step meth labs — one 20-ounce and one 32-ounce — in plain view.
KSP Trooper Richie Baxter arrested Claude T. Powell Jr., 44, of Corbin, and Brittany Yaden, 21, of Lily and charged both of them with first-degree manufacturing methamphetamine.
Baxter is continuing his investigation and was assisted, at the scene, by Trooper Mike King and the Laurel County Department of Public Safety.
Staff writer Tara Kaprowy can be reached by e-mail at tkaprowy@sentinel-
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