An Electra man suspected of cooking a big batch of liquid methamphetamine faces a new charge after attempting to steal from a home in Electra, court documents showed.

An armed neighbor faced off with the suspect in an alley, and the would-be thief -- who was the wheel man for the job -- immediately drove off, court records showed.

Robert Wayne Clower, 66, has been charged with attempted burglary of a habitation, court records show.

Clower was being held Wednesday in Wichita County Jail on a $25,000 bond for the attempted burglary charge in connection with a Sept. 23 incident, online jail records showed.

The charge is a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

In addition, A Wichita County grand jury indicted him Oct. 16 on one count of manufacture or delivery of 4 grams to 200 grams of meth in connection with an Aug. 24, 2018, incident, court documents showed.

The first-degree felony carries a maximum punishment of life in prison.

Affidavits for arrest warrants gave this account: An Electra police officer was dispatched to the 300 block of Louisiana Court in reference to a burglary in progress.

Upon the officer's arrival, the interim chief of police told him that a man dressed in all black and wearing a face mask was running east away from the area.

The man, later determined to be Jacob Wesley Cook of Electra, was carrying two shot guns and a revolver as he ran toward Truman Drive.

Cook dropped the guns as he jumped over a fence and ran across a field.

A second officer collected the guns, and then he collected Cook, who was sweating and out of breath, in the 300 block of Truman Drive.

At the home that had been burglarized, police interviewed a 35-year-old neighbor. He said he was sitting on his back porch when he saw an early 2000's Chevy Silverado pickup pull up in the alley behind his home.

The neighbor saw a masked man get out of the pickup with a duffel bag and walk up to his neighbor's backdoor.

The neighbor went inside his home to arm himself. Then he approached the pickup and saw Clower. The neighbor was recording the encounter with his cell phone.

Clower immediately left the area in the Silverado. The officers reviewed the neighbor's recording and determined it was of Clower.

Later that day, the officer interviewed Cook, 18, in custody.

Cook said Clower drove him and another suspect to the alley behind a home in the 300 block of Louisiana Court. Clower was waiting for Cook and the other suspect to return to the Silverado.

Cook was being held Wednesday in Wichita County Jail on $36,000 in bonds, online jail records showed.

He has been charged with felony burglary of a habitation, felony theft of a firearm and misdemeanor evading arrest and detention, jail records showed.

If convicted, he faces up to 23 years imprisonment.

Besides attempted burglary, Clower was arrested for allegedly "cooking dope" in an Aug. 24, 2018, incident at his home in the 500 block of North Illinois in Electra, according to court records.

Police found approximately 3,700 grams of liquid meth at the home while the haze and odor was clearing from a clandestine lab in a bedroom, court documents showed.

Clower told police that he had been using "drugs longer than most of the officers have been alive," according to court documents. But he was unaware of the illegal activity in his house.

Police arrested Clower and two other Electra men on drug charges.

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