LAKELAND, FL -- Detectives, acting on information about drugs and explosives in a Lakeland area home brought in their SWAT team and combined forces with the Federal ATF agents and Florida State Fire Marshals agents to execute a search warrant of the home.
Detectives found in the home located in the 2300 block of Limedale Road, methamphetamines and a gun. Living inside the home were four adults and three children ages 6 and 3 and an 9-month-old infant.
Diane Cox is the grandmother of the children and admitted to detectives that she knew her grandchildren were living there where drug transactions were taking place. Cox was released from state prison three days prior to the raid for trafficking in methamphetamine according to the sheriff's office.
Continuing with the investigation, detectives located a meth lab inside a motor home on the property where Maurice Chancey was living but not home at the time of the raid. There they found several handguns and rifles and in a semi-tractor trailer also on the property more guns were found along with ammo and a silencer. A homemade bomb was found inside the truck along with several bomb making materials which were removed by the ATF and fire marshals agents.
Detectives also found a Harley Davidson motorcycle stolen from the Winter Haven area a year ago and a 12-foot Boa Constrictor snake inside the meth lab.
Also located in the semi-trailer, was a homemade bomb, and numerous bomb making materials. Agents with the ATF and State Fire Marshals Office assisted with the bomb and other explosives that were located at the scene.
DCF took the children after the moms Crews, Combee, Cox, and Pettis were arrested at the scene without incident and transported to the Polk County Jail. The Department of Children and Families responded to assist with the care of the children.
Sabrina Crews is the mother of the 6-year-old and was charged with various meth drug charges and child neglect, Misty Combee is the mother of the 3-year-old and the 9-month-old and was charged with drug trafficking and child neglect and the children's grandmother Diane Cox is charged with drug trafficking with a minor present. Another resident, Aubrey Pettis is charged with a firearm violation involving a convicted felon and maintaining a home where drug sales takes place with children present.
A warrant was issued for Chancey on various drug and bomb making charges.
