Third suspect arrested in Homosassa meth lab case

Submitted by Robby Douglas on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 7:56am.

Jeffrey Carpenter

A third suspect was captured Friday night in connection with the case of a Homosassa meth lab.

The Drug Enforcement Agency and Citrus County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at about 8:30 a.m. on Friday and took two other people into custody.

Since the arrests earlier Friday of those suspects, 25-year-old Crystal Dennis and James Bole, 30, of Homosassa, DEA officials secured a federal warrant for the arrest of Jeffrey Carpenter, 32, also of Homosassa. He had originally been named a person of interest in connection with the meth operations discovered at 8538 W. Kimberly Court in Homosassa.

Shortly before 8 p.m. on Friday, members of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Impact Unit took Carpenter into custody at another residence in Homosassa. They found him hiding in a closet.

Carpenter will face charges of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine in federal court in Tampa.

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