Cpt. Larry Crabb inspects the site where a jug of anhydrous ammonia was expected to have been spilled by the suspects as they attempted to destroy the evidence. Sheriff's Detective Brian Layton said that he believed rags in the area of the dumping absorbed enough of the product to show positive when tested. Those rags and other items at the scene have been sent to OSBI laboratories for testing.

Two Grady County men are in jail today after Grady County Sheriff’s Deputies found them manufacturing methamphetamine under a bridge near Bradley, along old Highway 19 just east of the Rock Shop.

Grady County Sheriff’s Deputies Cpt. Larry Crabb and Eric Forsythe were passing over the bridge around 10:30 a.m. when they noticed a red Dodge Neon parked underneath. Expecting that the car stolen and abandoned, the Deputies went to check the tag on the car.

What they found was James Newton Nye, 40, and Robert Jeffrey Farley, 33, with a make-shift methamphetamine lab underneath the bridge. Farley turned himself over to authorities, but Nye made a break for it, heading north through the overgrown riverbed.

Having secured the crime scene and Farley, deputies began combing the area in search of Nye. Assistance came in from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Ninnekah Police Department, Alex Police Department, Pauls Valley Police Department, McClain County Sheriff’s Department, and Garvin County Sheriff’s Department.

These Departments shared canine units as well as a helicopter and began helping search the area.

After two hours in the brush, only finding random tennis shoe foot prints and then losing the scent, deputies called off the ground search and began following other leads.

It was 3:40 in the afternoon when an anonymous tip paid off, and the deputies, along with an Alex unit, found Nye hiding in a barn near Bradley.

Both Nye and Farley were arrested for manufacturing methamphetamine, and Nye was arrested on an additional charge of obstruction of justice.

Source: Chickasha Express-Star