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Samantha Hayes ReportingFederal agents who knocked on the door of a Bountiful mobile home tonight to serve a warrant got something they did not expect.
Agents with the Joint Crime Apprehension Team went to the Trade Winds Mobile home park in Bountiful to serve federal warrants to two men. Inside they discovered meth being made, right then and there.
The two men, Robert Gagnier and Charles Youngblood, were arrested, and then the DEA and local narcotics units were called in to break down the meth lab.
Agents suited up in protective gear, evacuated nearby mobile units and cut off gas and power to the unit with the lab. The Fire department was also on hand along with local police, who told us the two men arrested have a history of operating meth labs.
This was the first meth lab discovered in Davis County this year.
Lt. Allen Swanson, Davis County Narcotics Task Force: "Meth labs have actually gone down here in Davis County over the last few years. Off the top of my head, I want to say in 2004 we had roughly 17 labs. In 2005 it went down to three. This is actually the first lab for 2006, that we've been involved in dismantling. So they've gone down, which is a good thing."
About a half dozen neighbors were evacuated while investigators break down the lab. They were allowed back in early this morning.
Some neighbors them told KSL they noticed a lot of traffic around that particular mobile unit, but did not realize how dangerous the situation was.
Gagnier and Youngblood have been booked into the Davis County Jail. The Federal warrant that started this whole thing was for a weapons violation.
