An Ellabell father and son were booked into the Chatham County jail on various drug charges Wednesday after a Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team witnessed them acting suspiciously.
After observing the pair act nervously while purchasing pseudoephedrine at an Ogeechee Road pharmacy, the agent followed 43-year-old Joseph Roberts Sr. and 22-year-old Joseph Roberts Jr. to the Georgetown area where he watched them give the medicine to a known methamphetamine cook. Pseudoephedrine is the primary ingredient in meth.
CNT agents made contact with the the Roberts’s and the known meth cook and seized meth and items typically used to produce the drug.
Both suspects were charged with unlawful possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of tools for the manufacturing of methamphetamine. Roberts Sr. was also charged with possession of methamphetamine and other felony drug-related charges.
At the time of his arrest, the elder Roberts was out of jail on bond from an October 2011 arrest for manufacturing meth.