Cops: Woman tried to cook meth in store

TULSA, Okla. ( CNN/KOKI) - A woman in Oklahoma is arrested for allegedly mixing chemicals needed to make meth inside a Walmart.

She reportedly told police she was too broke to buy the chemicals.

Shoppers had no idea this woman is suspected of cooking meth inside Walmart while they were inside.

"This is a family store,” said Jessica Fuentes, who had her 1-year-old son in the store. "People need to start thinking. If she has family, she needs to think about her family. If you are broke, do something. Get a job, do something better with your life. Don't do something like that. It's just wrong."

Police said once Walmart security knew what Elizabeth Halfmoon was up to, they called police.

“When I saw her, she had just finished mixing. She had just finished up the mixing process of some sulfuric acid with starter fluid in a bottle and was in the process of taping the cap on to the bottle,” said Tulsa Police Officer David Shelby.

Taping the cap to the bottle is reportedly to increase the pressure needed to cook the drug.

Police said they immediately got her and the ingredients out of there before anyone got hurt. No one was evacuated.

Halfmoon reportedly told firefighters who responded to the incident that she was trying to get these chemicals and was in the process of trying to manufacture methamphetamine.

“However, she said that she was not very good at it,” said Shelby.

With the chemicals mixing in the store, it ate some of the paint off of the shelf.

Another officer who responded, didn't know exactly what Halfmoon had allegedly made. He has been treated and is OK after getting chemical burns on his hands.

"Something could have happened,” said Shelby. “Something could have blown up in there.”

Police said they arrested Halfmoon last month in another meth sting. She had just recently been released.