Two men were arrested in the 500 block of Duroc Court Monday evening. They are suspected of cooking methamphetamine.

Neighbors watched as police surrounded the duplex at the north end of the cul de sac beginning around 6:30 p.m.

"It's horrible," said Jeremy Blodgett, who was visiting his sister who lives in a neighboring house. "The town's getting horrible -- crime in general."

Chrissy Hughes has lived in the neighborhood since November and the thought of a meth lab across the street was unsettling.

"Not very safe," said Hughes, who has a 6-year-old daughter. "I made her go in her room when I saw the cops."

One man in a red shirt tried to run from the home, but police chased him down, neighbors and police said. He was later identified as John Wesley Wright, 29, of Lafayette. He lived at the duplex, according to jail records.

The other suspect, Zackery Lee Schulz, 23, of Goodland, holed up inside the house, police said.

The woman who rents the duplex gave police permission to force entry into the duplex, so officers entered the house and found Schulz in a second-floor closet.

The man refused to come out of the closet, so a police dog was sent in after him, police said.

Schulz was treated at the scene for a dog bite, police said.

Wright and Schulz face preliminary charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and resisting law enforcement. Schulz also is wanted on a warrant in an unrelated case.

This is the second time the two men have been arrested in drug-related busts. On March 21, they were two of the eight people arrested at 24th and Albany streets. In that case, Schulz was charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of synthetic drugs, and Wright was charged with visiting a common nuisance.

Indiana State Police meth suppression unit was called to the home to assess the environmental dangers inside the home and clean up the toxic chemicals, police said.

Meanwhile, some neighbors living near the duplex were asked to leave until the lab was cleaned up, neighbors and police said.

Mary Webb, who owns the house with the two duplexes, had to leave until the state police cleaned up the meth lab.

Webb said she rents the other side out to a woman who has lived there for 10 years. She knows that her renter didn't know what was going on inside the house.

Police said they received the call from one of the renter's sons who lived there after he found the lab. One of the men arrested was a younger family member of the renter, police said. The other man was his friend. Police have not released the names of the suspects.


2 suspects arrested after police find meth lab on Duroc Court

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