A welfare check by police unveiled a working methamphetamine lab in the basement of a Stow home Thursday afternoon. Stow police say officers were called to a house on Burton Drive to check on two people who were believed to be using drugs.

A child’s suspicious smell at school led to a much bigger problem on Tuesday, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office reports. It happened at Lakeview School in Stow when school officials called police to inform them that a 12-year-old student had an “odor of chemicals,” a news release stated.

On February 19th, the Summit County Drug Unit received information that a Stow school had contacted the Stow Police Department regarding a 12 year old student that came to school with the odor of chemicals. There was a suspicion that methamphetamine was being manufactured in the child’s home.

WOOSTER -- A Wooster woman will serve three years of probation for four counts of endangering children. Mary R. Cool, 35, of 430 N. Honeytown Road, was sentenced Wednesday by Wayne County Common Pleas Judge Corey Spitler to three years of community control for four counts of child endangering and one count of cultivating marijuana.

Thirteen people, nearly all from Ashtabula County, are named in a 42-count indictment that alleges they were part of an organized heroin distribution that operated in the area last year, law enforcement officials said Monday. Drugs the group sold ultimately resulted in the July death of a 27-year-old Ashtabula woman, officials said.