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Ogdensburg men jailed after state police allegedly caught them cooking meth

Posted 7/9/15

OSWEGATCHIE -- Three Ogdensburg-area men allegedly caught in the middle of making meth have been arrested and charged with third-degree unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine. State police received …

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Ogdensburg men jailed after state police allegedly caught them cooking meth

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OSWEGATCHIE -- Three Ogdensburg-area men allegedly caught in the middle of making meth have been arrested and charged with third-degree unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine.

State police received a complaint Wednesday that people might be making meth at 70 County Route 28A in Oswegatchie.

Ogdensburg patrols were dispatched and, when they got there, reported seeing three males near a shed behind the house.

“Upon the Troopers approaching the three subjects to conduct an interview, two took off running to the residence, while the third subject was dumping an unknown substance out of a container. Troopers then observed the components of a possible active Meth lab in and around the shed,” a press release from state police said.

Troopers summoned the state police Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team while they rounded up the three men.

Duane A. Gemmill, 45, the owner of house, along with Edward M. Lovely, 39, and Jason A. Carter, 33, both of Ogdensburg, were charged with the manufacturing meth count.

Gemmil was also charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after police allegedly found Percocet powder in a straw in his possession.

Gemmill and Lovely were arraigned in Morristown Town Court and sent to the county jail in lieu of $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond each.

Carter was sent to the county jail without bail due to three prior felony convictions, troopers said.

The state police were assisted at the scene by members of the St Lawrence County Drug Task Force and the Heuvelton Fire Department.