Two women arrested on suspicion of gathering materials for meth manufacturing in Perry County

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Two women were arrested this week in Perry County and charged with gathering materials with the intent to use them in the manufacture of methamphetamine.

Shannon D. Boyer, 33, and Melissa N. Seabaugh, 31, both of Farmington, were arrested by Perry County sheriff's deputies Monday. Each woman was charged with two counts of felony possession of methamphetamine precursors, felony of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and misdemeanor purchasing more than nine grams of pseudoephedrine in a 30-day period.

Deputies stopped the women in the St. Joe's General Store parking lot in Perryville on Jan. 22 while they were traveling in Boyer's vehicle. Police made the stop after a phone call from the Walgreen's pharmacy in Perryville reporting Boyer for her purchase of pseudoephedrine.

Shannon D. Boyer

According to a Perry County Sheriff's Department incident report written by deputy Carl Manche, deputies found several items associated with the manufacture of methamphetamine in the vehicle, including coffee filters, lithium batteries and pseudoephedrine purchased at the Walgreen's and Walmart pharmacies in Perryville.

A log of pseudoephedrine purchases supplied by area pharmacies showed the two had purchased over nine grams of the drug -- the legal limit in a 30-day period -- at stores in Perryville and Farmington from Dec. 31 to Jan. 22.

Manche wrote that Boyer confessed to deputies that she and Seabaugh had purchased the materials so that another person could make methamphetamine.

Seabaugh was arrested Jan. 22 on a failure to appear warrant from Herculaneum, Mo., and held until charges were filed on Tuesday.

Arrest warrants for the two were issued Tuesday.

Boyer was released after questioning, but turned herself in on Wednesday.