A Butler man is accused of cooking up methamphetamine out of his city apartment.

The suspect, Brian M. Payment Jr., 27, whipped up the highly addictive stimulant, authorities said, and haphazardly discarded the chemically hazardous waste in the Dumpster at a Butler church.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday charged Payment with a list of felonies including operating a meth lab.

District Judge William Fullerton issued an arrest warrant for the defendant, who suffered an apparent drug overdose last week at his home. He was treated at Butler Memorial Hospital and later released.

Authorities said Payment was to turn himself in for arraignment this afternoon at Fullerton’s office in Butler.

The Butler County Drug Task Force and city police assisted in the investigation during which a law enforcement informant Sept. 26 tipped off authorities about the illicit drug-cooking lab, according to court documents.

The informant claimed the defendant and others were purchasing products containing pseudoephedrine and other ingredients needed to concoct the drug.

Police Friday tracked down another confidential source who provided additional information about the meth lab operation.

The source described Payment as one of the “main cooks” at the apartment while others “were purchasing pseudoephedrine products, batteries, cold pack, salt, Drano, etc.,” documents said, to make the product.

Investigators said the source was at Payment’s apartment Sept. 29 and saw him dump a plastic shopping bag filled with meth waste into the Dumpster at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church on Center Avenue.

State narcotics agent Douglas Brink and county Detective Tim Fennell, who supervises the Butler County Drug Task Force, on Sept. 30 went to the church and sifted through the large garbage container.

The pair recovered a used, one-pot meth cooking vessel and a hydrogen chloride gas generator still in the discarded bag

A subsequent review of nearby surveillance footage showed a man believed to be the defendant throwing the bag into the Dumpster at 7:24 a.m. Sept. 29, investigators said.

Police, city firefighters and paramedics about 2:30 p.m. Friday were called to Payment’s apartment where he suffered a suspected drug overdose. He is the sole tenant listed on the lease.

Emergency crews administered the opioid antidote Narcan, which revived him, authorities said.

While at the home, officers found boxes of Sudafed, which contain a key ingredient in meth manufacturing, and other related evidence.

The attorney general’s clandestine lab team was called in to assist and sweep the property of the potentially dangerous and hazardous materials used to cook methamphetamine.

Among the materials discovered in three garbage bags at the apartment, documents said, were lithium, sodium hydroxide, petroleum distillates and ammonium nitrate.

Brink said a hazardous material team helped dispose of the “highly caustic, extremely flammable, volatile and hazardous” items.

Payment is charged with manufacturing a controlled substance, operating a meth lab, possessing chemicals and other precursors with intent to manufacture a controlled substance, and risking a catastrophe, all felonies.

Fennell said others could be charged in the ongoing investigation.