MORGANTOWN Simple ingredients and low manufacturing costs have methamphetamine labs dotting rural southcentral Kentucky. Now, territorial producers are boobytrapping their already potentially explosive settings. A lab Butler County Sheriffs Department officials found Wednesday in a walk-in cooler in Sugar Grove was booby trapped with a gas-filled light bulb. If the bulb was bumped wrong (in the light socket), it could have exploded, Butler County Sheriff Kenneth Morris said. Warren County Sheriffs Deputy Brad Harper is trained in dismantling meth labs and that training might have kept us from getting hurt, Morris said. The lab and another small setup were on the Sugar Grove Road property of 33-year-old Richard Lloyd, who was charged with possession and manufacturing meth and possession and cultivation of marijuana, Morris said. He was lodged in Butler County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond. Harper and fellow Warren County Sheriffs Deputy John Williams, both of whom were on the scene Wednesday, are the only law enforcement officers in the eight-county area with federal training and certification to recognize, disarm and dismantle methamphetamine labs, Harper said. Harper said he doesnt believe the bulb was properly hooked up to explode, but it could have easily been. Morris and Harper said the rise in meth labs is exponential. In Warren County, two meth labs were found in 1999; there have been 13 or 14 so far this year, Harper said. Butler County has found six labs this year and arrested more than 100 people either on meth manufacturing, dealing or possession charges, Morris said. Many meth manufacturers are in it for the profit, Harper said. They are dealing in 8-balls, and you are talking quite a bit of money – $200 to $400, Harper said. But Morris thinks its a different story in Butler County. Single, $20 hits provide a longer high than marijuana or cocaine, making the cost about the same for each, he said. And many people make meth for personal use. The stuffs very addictive, Morris said. I think (some) people are taking it to lose weight. You have unlimited energy and dont have to eat for days. But aside from its illegality, there are other risks in manufacturing the drug, he said. You dont have to be a chemist to do it, and many of them arent, he said. Consequently, there is the potential for explosions, Morris said. Weve had two or three fires here lately that have started mysteriously with an explosion, he said. But everything was burned in the fire, so there was no evidence to prove what had started (them).No community is immune to meth. Hart County Sheriffs Department uncovered a meth lab in Priceville on Thursday, according to Sheriff Jeff Staples. A large quantity of meth and marijuana also were found, Staples said. Several police agencies, including Kentucky State Police, were needed to clean up the lab. Police charged James D. Burba, age unavailable, who owned the 436 Priceville Lane property where the lab was discovered, with manufacturing and trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia (second offense), as well as with knowingly possessing anhydrous ammonia in something other than an approved container with the intent to manufacture meth. Police also charged John W. Nowak, age and address unavailable, with manufacturing and trafficking in meth, possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana and with carrying a concealed weapon. Police also charged Tony J. Wilson, age and address unavailable, with manufacturing and trafficking in meth, possession of drug paraphernalia and with knowing possession of anhydrous ammonia other than in an approved container with the intent to manufacture meth. All three were lodged in Hart County Jail awaiting a bond hearing Friday.