ST. CHARLES COUNTY • The owner of a St. Charles County scooter shop faces criminal charges after investigators searched his shop and found an active methamphetamine lab in his office, along with several loaded guns and more than $19,000 in cash in a backpack on the office floor.

Officers busted two other labs and made four more arrests on Friday, and court documents filed today say the suspects are included in the same ring.

Bradley E. Gelber, 49, of the 200 block of Northshore Court in St. Peters, is the owner of Brad's Scooters at 3301 North Highway 94 in St. Charles County. On Friday, members of the St. Charles County Regional Drug Task force went to the shop, acting on a tip that Gelber was the “financier and front man for a substantial methamphetamine ring,” according to court documents.

Officers said they found some methamphetamine in a container in his front pants pocket, and then searched the business and found the lab. The business was also equipped with a sophisticated surveillance system that included cameras and microphones, court documents say.

A voice mailbox for the business was full and could not accept new messages this afternoon.  A spokesman for the drug task force said the county condemned the business.

Also on Friday, Jeffery A. Runyon, 45, and his son Thomas J. Runyon, 26, were arrested after a bust at their home in the 300 block of Donald Avenue in St. Charles County revealed items used to make methamphetamine. Officers forced their way inside the home after they noticed a foul odor and black smoke billowing from the chimney, and found the Runyons and Jeffery Runyon's wife Sandra in the smoke-filled basement. Sandra Runyon told detectives her husband forced her into the basement and saw him throw a syringe and pills used to make meth into the fire, documents say.

During the other bust, officers found a lab in an apartment in the 5400 block of North Highway 94 . Officers arrested residents Thomas L. Scurlock, 48, and Chantel R.Harshbarger, 41. During the bust, Hasrshbarger struggled with an officer and hit him and Scurlock ordered a dog to attack them, documents say. The dog bit two officers and was stepping towards another before an officer shot and killed the dog.

The suspects were all charged today in St. Charles County Circuit Court.