John Lowell Hopkins, Jr. Arrested for Allegedly Manufacturing Meth in Multi-Lab Facility on Sechler Street in China Grove, N.C.

RFP Staff

♦ On Monday morning John Lowell Hopkins, Jr., 40, of 179 Sechler Street in China Grove was arrested for allegedly for having meth’s precursor drugs and a multi-lab meth (one-pot shake and bake) manufacturing set-up inside his mobile home. A loaded handgun was found inside of Hopkin’s Nissan SUV parked outside of the mobile home at 179 Sechler Street (pictured below):

All morning and into the later afternoon and evening his mobile home was abuzz with Sheriff’s deputies and emergency services personnel, carting out potentially hazardous and explosive chemicals.

Hopkins was charged with 2 counts of possessing immediate precursor chemicals (felony), maintain a dwelling for controlled substance (felony), and manufacture control substance schedule I (felony). Under a secured $200,000 bond, Hopkins remains in the Rowan County Detention Center in Salisbury, N.C.

Also arrested in the mobile home was Richard Brent Thompson, 45, of Cabarrus County wanted for 3 charges of failure to appear/comply (misdemeanor). Thompson was sent back to Cabarrus where he is being held on a secured $4,000 bond.

John Lowell Hopkins, Jr.’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0875088&searchLastName=Hopkins&searchFirstName=john&searchMiddleName=l&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Richard Brent Thompson’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0406977&searchLastName=Thompson&searchFirstName=Richard&searchMiddleName=b&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

John Lowell Hopkins, Jr.:

Richard Brent Thompson: