UPDATE: Grawn Mobile Home Site Of “Largest Meth Bust” in Northern Michigan

We now know the names of the people arrested in a major meth bust Wednesday in Grand Traverse County.

Drug teams raided a home off of Compton Court in Grawn.

They arrested six men during the raid.

Caleb Griffith and David Bean face several charges ranging from delivery and manufacturing meth to maintaining a drug house.

Joshua Doherty, Eli Olson, Jeffrey Willey, and Michael Goodwin were also arrested for delivery and manufacturing meth and purchasing ingredients to make meth.

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"Never seen anything like that. Had it exploded, we would have all been caught in all of this."

One of the largest meth busts in Northern Michigan…

That’s what detectives say happened at this mobile home last night.

It’s a story we have been working all day since we first told you about it on Michigan This Morning.

Detectives took more than 100 bags of hazardous material from the mobile home.

They arrested six people at the home in Grawn located in Blair Township in Grand Traverse County and expect more arrests to come.

Crews were there until this afternoon, seizing meth and materials used to make it.

9&10’s Cody Boyer and photojournalist Melvin Kimbrough learned more about the raid in tonight’s top story.

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Many tips and a month of investigation led detectives to the small home in Blair Township last night.

Investigators are calling it the biggest meth lab — and bust — they have seen in years.

"This was a very organized effort," says 1st Lt. Kip Belcher of the 7th District Multi-Jurisdictional Taskforce Group. "A fluid environment, continuous and ongoing."

A dangerous scene at this mobile home kept crews in HAZMAT suits working through the night…

"It was an extremely large lab environment, particularly for Northern Michigan," Lt. Belcher says. "There were an excess of 100 bags of trash that were located in this particular outbuilding, the majority of which contained hazardous by-product, items, waste material related to methamphetamine production."

Hundreds of bags of dangerous chemicals from two buildings…

Detectives say it was an organized operation.

"It will be linked to more people. There is absolutely no doubt about that," Lt. Belcher says. "Several more people are likely to be brought into this investigation and potentially charged criminally, as well."

Eight people were found inside, including six men and two women. Police arrested the men, including a 31 year old, a 33 year old, a 36 year old, and a 42 year old, all from Traverse City. A sixth man, a 40 year old from Canada, was also arrested.

Those six men face meth-related charges.

Charges against more people are on the way.

"We believe that individuals were smurfing, or buying pseudofed and this individual here was cooking the pseudofed and producing methamphetamine," says Lt. Dan King, Traverse Narcotics Team (TNT).

Police say children may have been exposed to toxic, material, as well.

"There were no children there at that time," Lt. Belcher says. "However, there were indications in the home that young children had been there."

Investigators say this was an important bust to slow down the scourge of meth in the area.

"It was a good thing that they were able to intercept this type of activity," Lt. Belcher says.

Detectives say it could take a very long time to clean up the site.

Through investigation, detectives also seized a small amount of marijuana, as well as finished meth product.

The two women were not arrested at the time of search. Their involvement in the case is being investigated.

The six arrested are expected to be arraigned tomorrow.