I live in Cary NC which is inside Wake County. This teacher taught third grade in a Wake County school but lived in Johnson where housing prices are lower (many teachers in eastern Wake County do this). This news story was the top story in our local media this past week. Naturally it brought on all sorts of commentary... "were all the legal jobs taken", "Just how underpaid are teachers", etc. This couple was caught because they are idiots. They cooked Meth in their home and the chemical smell was so bad that all of their neighbors could smell it. Obviously one of their neighbors called the cops. North Carolina currently has a bad meth problem in rural counties. It has reached the point where law enforcement has stopped spending time on illegal moonshine busts because all of their hours are spent on meth enforcement.
Also a serious problem in Alabama. Literally, a guy named "Walter White" was a high ranking meth cook.