{"id":153475,"date":"2012-01-02T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=153475"},"modified":"2012-01-03T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:28:34","slug":"one-in-hospital-one-jailed-after-meth-lab-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=153475","title":{"rendered":"One in Hospital, One Jailed after Meth Lab Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=153476\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-153476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/russell_love-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"russell_love\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-153476\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nQUITMAN \u2014 A meth lab explosion in Wood County leads to an arrest and lands a person in a Dallas hospital. Just before 7:45 Saturday evening, the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Department was notified by ETMC Quitman that a 29-year- old woman had came in with severe burns from what she explained had been a meth lab explosion near her residence. The Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Department later identified her as Shanda Gail Simmons, 29, from Quitman. Simmons had been dropped off by a boyfriend, Russell Allen Love.<\/p>\n<p>Wood County Dispatchers contacted the City of Quitman Police Department to go by ETMC Quitman to get any further details. Quitman Police officer Fortner contacted the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office and advised that the meth lab was in the county\u2019s Clear Lakes section. Wood County deputies and Quitman police responded to County Road 2150 in Clear Lakes. On arrival Love was detained for further investigation and Love gave written consent to search the residence to the Wood County deputies, who reportedly found a working \u201cshake and bake\u201d meth lab in the kitchen. According to authorities, Wood County Narcotics Officers responded to the scene for processing and collected numerous items and drug paraphernalia along with two containers which tested positive for methamphetamine and weighed approximately 547 grams.<\/p>\n<p>Love, 38, of Quitman was arrested for manufacturing\/delivery of a controlled substance Penalty group 1 over 400 grams and is being held on a $75,000 bond. Shanda Simmons was transported to Parkland Hospital for treatment. Simmons\u2019s condition is said to be fair at this time. Further investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITMAN \u2014 A meth lab explosion in Wood County leads to an arrest and lands a person in a Dallas hospital. Just before 7:45 Saturday evening, the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Department was notified by ETMC Quitman that a 29-year- old woman had came in with severe burns from what she explained had been a meth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=153475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One in Hospital, One Jailed after Meth Lab Explosion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 08:12:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153475"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153757,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153475\/revisions\/153757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}