Two men were arrested Thursday after a single-vehicle crash uncovered a suspected rolling meth lab and led to northbound lane closures on I-75 that lasted for hours, the Lamar County Sheriff’s Office said.
About 6:25 a.m., the sheriff’s office learned of the accident, which occurred on southbound I-75 at Mile Marker 200, the agency said in an emailed statement.
The driver told officials he fell asleep and ran into a guardrail on the interstate, according to Channel 2 Action News. The vehicle ended up in northbound lanes of I-75. The driver and the passenger were not injured.
“Upon further investigation,” the sheriff’s office said in the statement, “officers found containers with possible hazardous materials inside which raised suspicions of a possible mobile meth lab.”
Authorities shut down northbound lanes and traffic delays stretched up to 7 miles at one point, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and hazmat crews were called to investigate the suspected meth lab. Officials said they found methamphetamine and other drugs on the scene, but they declined to say what those other drugs were, according to Channel 2.
After they “properly secured, removed and transported the suspected hazardous materials away from the scene,” the road reopened just after 11:30 a.m., authorities said.
The two suspects, identified as 31-year-old Jeremy Thomas Fulgham and 35-year-old Dustin Eugene McMillan, were taken to the Lamar County Jail, where they were being held on unknown charges.
No other details were released.
Lamar County is about 60 miles south of Atlanta.
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