MILLIGAN - An Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy discovered a methamphetamine lab early Thursday when who checked on suspicious activity outside a utility shed at a home on Wadsworth Road.
The deputy noticed two men leaving the shed about 4:30 a.m. One was holding items used to make methamphetamine, according to news release from the Sheriff's Office.
One man fled, but the deputy detained 32-year-old Jason Earl Chessher of Milligan, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
The county’s Multi-Agency Drug Task Force later found chemicals and equipment used to make meth in the shed and in a nearby bus where Chessher lived.
Chessher was charged with manufacturing meth, possession of a controlled substance, resisting an officer without violence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of listed chemicals.