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By Julian Benbow
Capital News Service
Shenandoah County Sheriff Tim Carter is worried that more houses could pop up in the western part of Virginia like the one where he and his drug task force found Maurice Landry more than three years ago.
Landry, 34 years old at the time, lived in a cabin with maybe five rooms in Fort Valley, a blue-collar town of about 1,000 people hidden in the Massanutten Mountains. He lived with his 29-year-old girlfriend, Kimberly Carter, and her 7-year-old daughter.
Sheriff Carter (no relation to Kimberly) said Landry used one of the rooms as a lab for manufacturing methamphetamine, cooking what’s known on the street as poor man’s cocaine with whatever ingredients he could come up with. He eventually turned that room into a bedroom for Kimberly Carter’s daughter.
When the Northwest Task Force stormed the cabin in September 2001 and arrested the couple, Sheriff Carter said officers found the lab, as well as several firearms, including three revolvers and an AK-47 assault rifle.
They also found the 7-yearold girl.
Toxic chemicals from the production of meth had caused the 7-year-old girl’s brain to swell, Sheriff Carter said. She was sent to the Children’s
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