A Wind Gap man faces charges of operating a methamphetamine lab at his girlfriend's residence in Eldred Township while her four children, all minors, lived there.

Shawn Meyers, 43, of the 300 block of South Broadway, ran the lab out of a shed on the property, along Steep Hill Lane, according to state police at Lehighton.Monroe County Children and Youth Services contacted police about the methamphetamine and reports of no food being available in the house.Police responded to the residence on March 20, when Meyers told them the allegations were not true and "began to mumble about numerous things."Meyers appeared "agitated, nervous and extremely edgy," police wrote in affidavit of probable cause filed at Magisterial District Judge JoLana Krawitz's office.The only thing at the residence, Meyers said, were some odds and ends his friend, Zach O'Neil, dropped off the night before.He took police to the shed, where they found plastic bottles containing unknown residue, a coffee grinder, plastic containers containing residue and tin foil containing residue.When questioned, Meyers' girlfriend said the items were not hers and shouldn't be there."I looked in the shed area again and found other items consistent with the manufacturing of methamphetamine such as lithium batteries, fuel containers and other containers with white residues on them," trooper Michael Sofranko wrote.The state police Clandestine Laboratory Response Team was called to the scene.The items seized were classified as a boxed/dismantled methamphetamine lab.Meyers' girlfriend told police she wanted anything illegal or dangerous to her children off the property.Meyers is charged with possessing methamphetamine with intent to deliver, manufacturing methamphetamine with minors present, possessing ephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine, possessing drug paraphernalia, knowingly possessing a controlled or counterfeit substance, endangering the welfare of children and reckless endangerment.A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday.