Gainesville Police arrested a man and woman Monday after police said they had meth in their car.
At at about 4 a.m., Dennis Perkins, 37, and Marleen Adkins, 32, parked behind a closed business in the 1400 block of NW 23rd Ave., according to a police report.
Gainesville Police checked the license plate and realized it did not match the car it was placed on, Gainesville Police Department spokesman Officer Ben Tobias wrote in an email.
Officers found Perkins passed out in the driver’s seat, along with needles inside a “one-pot” meth bottle between his feet, Tobias wrote.
An officer took Perkins and Adkins out of the car and found bags of meth in Perkins’ pocket, Tobias wrote. The amount is unclear.
Tobias also wrote that Adkins had an active warrant for child neglect in Putnam County.
Mobile meth labs, Tobias wrote, are not common, with the last one taking place about six months ago.
In each case, the chemicals from these labs can be dangerous for officers, Tobias wrote.
“The caustic chemicals used in both fixed and mobile operations are extremely hazardous…but mobile one-pot labs can be concealed so that an officer may not even know it’s around,” he wrote.
Police arrested Perkins and Adkins on the charges of trafficking more than 14 grams of amphetamines, selling amphetamines within 1,000 feet of a specified area and keeping a vehicle for dangerous drugs.
Perkins also received a charge for distributing a listed chemical for the manufacture of a controlled substance, and Adkins received a charge for possessing the listed chemical.
Authorities took them to the Alachua County Jail where, as of press time, they remain unsentenced.
