In the past fiscal year — Oct. 2012 to Aug. 24 — there were a total of 16 meth labs in Athens County, according to data from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office.
A woman was sentenced to prison Thursday for raising her children in one of them.
Athens County Common Pleas Court Judge George P. McCarthy sentenced Samantha Hummel, 26, to prison for two years for endangering children, a felony of the third degree.
David Schuetzman, 51, resided with Hummel and her two children on Canaanville Road in Athens; however, it is unclear how the two of them are related.
He was indicted Feb. 25.
On April 22, former Judge Michael Ward sentenced Schuetzman to five years in prison for illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs and endangering children, a second-degree felony, according to a news release.
“On Feb. 13, Hummel was living with Schuetzman, who possessed items commonly used in the making of methamphetamine and was actively making product,” Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said in a news release. “Hummel’s two young children were living in the residence at the time.”
According to a previous Post article, Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly’s Narcotics Enforcement Team investigated with a search warrant and found the meth lab inside the residence and in the garage.
They found syringes in a bedroom and took 16 bottles that they believed to contain meth.
Hummel was sentenced to serve her prison term in the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail; Schuetzman is incarcerated in the Southeastern Correctional Institution.
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