Officials looking for meth lab found moonshine still instead

State probation officials in Florida searching a Plant City property for a meth lab instead found a moonshine still with a barrel of fermenting corn mash and strawberries, authorities said.



At 5:30pm on Thursday, Hillsborough County sheriff’s detectives and and state Department of Corrections officers responded to the home of Donnie Jones, to locate a meth lab, the sheriff’s office said.



The officials were were searching a shed on the property and found the still under an overhang, the sheriff’s office said. Detectives said they observed a red 50-gallon plastic barrel which contained corn mash and strawberries. Detectives said they also located a white plastic barrel with copper worm tubing.



Detectives found items to make methamphetamine but not an operational lab, the sheriff’s office said. Jones, 26, was arrested for violating probation on charges of resisting a law enforcement officer without violence, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.