What is worrying is that the article and many other news sources that report on the arrest almost take the allegations as pure fact. There may well be a frame-up or just an overeager prosecutor - how do you even get from a benzyl chloride spill to manufacturing meth (that's manufacturing meth, not manufacturing with intent to distribute).
Elsewhere the blogosphere is very sceptical: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2019/11/henderson-state-chemi...