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Platteville woman charged in meth bust
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SHULLSBURG - Another suspect has been charged after the bust of a Shullsburg meth lab in late January.

Latasha Lynn Groom, 25, Platteville, faces five felonies, including possession of methamphetamine ingredients and waste and three counts of manufacturing or delivering an amphetamine.

Robert F. Gundry, 59, lives in an apartment at 221 W. Water St. and was allowing Groom to cook meth there, according to a criminal complaint filed Feb. 5. He faces felony counts of maintaining a drug-trafficking place and possessing meth ingredients and waste.

Drug agents arrested Gundry during a search of his home Jan. 28. His cash bond is set at $10,000.

Groom was later arrested and jailed on a $20,000 cash bond. Her preliminary hearing is Feb. 18.

The search warrant on the home was executed after months of investigation. Several other people with alleged connections to the meth lab are named in court documents but have not yet been charged.

Investigators report Groom bought meth ingredients or asked other people to buy ingredients for her at businesses around the area, including bottles of iodine tincture at Farm and Fleet in Monroe. She usually cooked the meth at night, according to an informant interviewed by drug agents.

Groom has one other criminal case in Wisconsin. She and a Dubuque man, Jason M. Schumacher, 31, were arrested during a traffic stop in Shullsburg in December on charges of possessing meth.