Meth dealer arrested again

Published 10:50 am Friday, June 24, 2011

An Austin man is in Mower County jail after he was once again arrested for allegedly carrying a mobile meth lab.

Jacob Harm Wilde, 33, was arrested Thursday night after the Special Incident Response Team received information that Wilde was at a residence at the 2100 block of First Avenue NE. Wilde was wanted on previous drug charges, according to police.

SIRT members, Austin police and Mower County Sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at around 10 p.m. Wilde wasn’t there, but residents told police he was expected to return, according to Mower County Sheriff Terese Amazi.

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Wilde later drove by the residence and police stopped him at a park across from East Side Lake. Officers then took him and passenger Timothy Richard Dunn, 51, into custody.

Officers searched Wilde’s vehicle, where they found ingredients and tools for a portable meth lab, including an unknown liquid.

Wilde and Dunn are at Mower County Jail pending formal charges.

Wild was arrested on April 21 on a warrant. According to police reports, Wilde had a backpack which contained a Southern Comfort bottle bottle one-third full with a liquid that tested positive for ammonia.

According to court documents, the bag also contained clear plastic tubing and a straw that tested positive for meth, along with coffee filters, mason jars, lithium batteries and an unopened bottle of muriatic acid.

He pleaded not guilty to fifth-degree drug possession and possessing meth precursors with intent to manufacture in May. He pleaded guilty to a previous fifth-degree drug possession charge in March and was scheduled to be sentenced on May 20.