LENOIR NC — A hunt for ghosts and a call for help ended with three men in trouble Monday night and charged with making methamphetamine.
According to a news release from the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office, it all started when Sonny Clay Hyatt, 39, of 303 Laurel Street in Hudson, called 911 in the middle of the night and told a dispatcher he was lost deep in the woods off Goat Farm Road in the Baton community. Deputies responded to the area and used the GPS coordinates from Hyatt’s cell phone to locate and bring him out.
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