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Medical call leads to discovery of booby-trapped meth lab

Responding to an overdose call revealed improvised explosive devices

MCNEILL, Miss. — Medics at a call of a woman overdosing in Miss. discovered meth labs and improvised explosive devices.

Responders noticed several active methamphetamine labs on the back porch of the home in McNeill and called in narcotics investigators, according to the Picayune Item.

Outside the home, several objects were deemed to be booby traps.

EMS and firefighters were placed on standby while police searched the premises, eventually discovering two potentially lethal improvised explosive devices.

The woman is receiving care at an unnamed medical facility.