Police find materials to make meth at a home in Perry County with two children inside!

Police say Melissa Tackett, the mother of these children, will face meth manufacturing charges, and police say the drug is becoming a bigger problem in this part of eastern Kentucky.

Police got a complaint Wednesday evening about a possible meth lab at this house on Coates Branch Road in the Ary community. They searched Melissa Tackett's home and this small building next to it.

"We ended up searching that building and also found the components to use and to make meth," says State Trooper Adam Hall.

Inside the home were two children, ages 10 and 14. He says, "Social services was contacted, there is going to be an active case opened with them, involving the two children, and they were placed with grandparents."

Melissa Tackett was taken to jail on a previous warrant from Laurel county, but Trooper Hall says she will also face meth manufacturing charges.

Neighbors on Coates Branch say it's a shame that the children were left inside the home, but they also say they've never had any problems with this woman in the past. "I've been a neighbor to them for five years and I had no idea that would be going on, not that anything like that even existed," says neighbor Earl Miller.

Police say the complaint was an anonymous phone call from someone in the community. "People who call in from these communities in Perry County and throughout Kentucky really help us out on actually cracking down on our problem that we are beginning to get," says Hall.

Trooper Hall believes prescription pills are getting harder to come by, and that's why he believes some people are turning to meth. "They are actually switching to making the methamphetamine themselves."

He says it is a problem they will continue to battle. Trooper Hall says this is one of the first meth manufacturing cases in this area, but he has seen a big increase in trafficking and possession cases recently.