SOCASTEE, SC (WBTW) – The Horry County Police department is investigating a meth lab inside a Socastee area apartment Wednesday morning.
Fire officials were called to the Plantation Apartments complex of Rittenhouse Road at 4:54 a.m.
According to Raul Denis of Horry County Police Department, the caller reported strange noises and kerosene-like fumes coming from an apartment and they thought meth was being produced. The caller also said they saw “what appeared to be injured people leaving that location.”
When officers arrived, they confirmed the presence of smoke and chemicals in the apartment and found evidence that someone had been injured.
“Our clandestine meth lab investigators cleared the residence for hazardous materials and found what are believed to be precursors of meth production,” Denis said.
Officials later located two men at local hospitals that they have identified as the people seen leaving the apartment injured.
Both men are still being treated and there’s no word yet on their condition.
The case is still under investigation for possible criminal charges.
Wednesday, Honestii Campbell and her step-mom Rhodia Jackson watched as police went in the apartment next to theirs, and they say the meth lab investigation is part of a bigger problem in the area.
“The way the crime in this area is coming up…something is not happening, and something needs to happen,” said Jackson.
Wednesday’s investigation was just a few blocks from Socastee Plaza. News 13 told you two men were found shot to death in the parking lot there last month, and before that, a woman was found dead in a laundromat.
Jackson says with the increase in crime, she’d like to see an increase in police presence in the area.
