A 32-year-old father was sentenced Thursday for operating a methamphetamine lab in his family’s Chicora home.

Harley Stone was sentenced to 6 to 23 months in prison.

He pleaded guilty to a felony count of operating a methamphetamine lab, and three misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person.

Stone also was sentenced to 72 months of probation, to follow his prison sentence, for depositing, storing and disposing of chemical waste, a felony.

He was credited for 141 days served in prison.

Stone was arrested March 17 of this year after admitting to state trooper Michael Lewis that he was operating a methamphetamine lab in his house at 211 W. Slippery Rock St. — the same house in which his three young children, at the times ages 5, 6, and 9, lived.

Stone and his wife, Jenna Stone, 31, had been operating a methamphetamine lab in the upstairs of the house.

Clarion County probation officers discovered the lab when they went looking for Jenna Stone at the house. She was arrested in the home, where the probation officers noticed the meth-producing trappings.

Ingredients to make the drug were found, including Coleman camp fuel, Drano, ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, hydrochloric acid, red phosphorous and lithium.

Also found were components to make and smoke crystal meth, including plastic containers, tubing, Mason jars, coffee filters and incandescent light bulbs.

Lewis testified during Harley Stone’s preliminary hearing on March 23 that within the house was a one-pot lab. By this method methamphetamine is made in one vessel, typically a 2-liter soda bottle, by combining unstable ingredients in the bottle and shaking it.

Lewis said this technique can whip up a small batch of the drug in as short amount of time as 30 minutes. However, one small mistake can cause an explosion that is dangerous for anyone nearby.

Lewis also testified that there was “no indication that Stone was selling the drug. About one gram of methamphetamine was found in the house.

Jenna Stone, who also pleaded guilty to operating a methamphetamine lab, was sentenced July 25 to serve 1 to 2 years in prison.