Eudora ? One of Kansas’ most wanted criminals was nabbed this week when city and county drug officers searched a home in Eudora.

A “how-to” methamphetamine cookbook and instructional videotape were among the items police seized in the raid publicized Thursday.

“It just shows how easy it is to do this,” said Eudora Police Chief Greg Dahlem. “It’s too easy. They’ve got the books. They’ve got a video.”

Eudora Police and the joint city-county Drug Enforcement Unit on Wednesday afternoon served a search warrant at the home in the 1300 block of Cherry Street in Eudora. They seized various items commonly used to make methamphetamine. The haul included lithium batteries and pseudoephedrine tablets, a handgun, ammunition and suspected methamphetamine and psychedelic mushrooms.

“We all are relieved getting drugs off the city streets, especially in Eudora,” said Sheriff-elect Maj. Ken McGovern of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. “People think there’s not a problem in a small town.”

Several neighbors who declined to give their names said they’d suspected the home had been used to distribute drugs. They described seeing police approach the basement of the home late Wednesday afternoon with guns drawn.

Despite the raw materials for meth, police said there was not an active lab in the home. They said they thought the drugs were being cooked elsewhere.

Police arrested three people: a 22-year-old Eudora man, a 24-year-old Eudora man, and a 39-year-old man, address unknown, who had been on the Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s Kansas’ Most Wanted list for a bail violation.

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Two of the suspects were being held late Thursday in the Douglas County Jail. One had been released on his own recognizance.