Lisa Trigg
The Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE —
A Terre Haute man received a 15-year prison sentence in Vigo Superior Court 1 after pleading guilty to dealing methamphetamine and two counts of neglect of a dependent following his March arrest.
Terry G. Baugh Jr., 23, will serve 12 of those years in the Indiana Department of Correction, with three years suspended to probation.
Baugh was arrested at his mother’s residence on Old Royse Road after Indiana State Police troopers found an active meth lab in the garage of a house where he lived with his mother, wife and two small children.
Police also arrested Baugh’s wife and mother at the time, and the children were taken into custody by Child Protective Services. Members of the U.S. Marshal Service Fugitive Apprehensive team had been looking for Baugh when they found him at his mother’s residence. When officers approached the home, they noticed the garage door of the house was open and they saw a cloudy haze inside where an active meth lab was cooking.
When officers entered the garage, Baugh fled into the house and was pursued to a bedroom where he tried to enter a trap door in a closet to reach the crawl space under the home, before he was apprehended.
The lab in the garage was deactivated and dismantled by members of the ISP Methamphetamine Suppression Team, along with an ISP Drug Enforcement Section Detective. State police report that a minimal amount of suspected methamphetamine was found during the investigation, but no finished product from the lab was found. The process was ongoing at the time of arrests and had not concluded the final steps for an actual batch of meth.
Lisa Trigg can be reached at (812) 231-4254 or lisa.trigg@tribstar.com.
