Parole Check Leads to Parents’ Arrest

A couple who reportedly allowed two friends to cook methamphetamine in their son’s bedroom face child endangerment charges, and the friends were arrested on suspicion of manufacturing the drug.

Authorities on a routine probation check searched the home of 28-year-old Christopher Stewart on Tuesday night and discovered a gallon of solution that can be processed to make five to seven pounds of methamphetamine, Police Sgt. John Desmond said.

Investigators said Stewart and his wife, Tambra Lynn Stewart, also 28, had been living in a mobile home in the 700 block of Lido Park Drive with their 2-year-old son. Two friends who came to stay with the couple Saturday lived in the toddler’s room, police said.

The friends, Joseph Nikolas Trollmann and Elizabeth Marie Giliszer, “set up a lab and started cooking Sunday,” Desmond said.

There was a minor explosion at that time and Trollmann, 35, of Huntington Beach, suffered third-degree burns to his hands and arms. The Stewarts took Trollmann to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, where he was treated and later released. Trollmann told hospital workers that he had been working with gasoline, Desmond said.

“They went back to the mobile home and continued cooking,” Desmond said. “The Stewarts apparently were aware of what was going on.”

Christopher Stewart is on probation for methamphetamine possession, and authorities may randomly search his home, Desmond said. The methamphetamine oil found in Tuesday’s search had an estimated street value of $60,000, authorities said.

The Stewarts’ son was taken to Orangewood Children’s Home following the couple’s arrest on suspicion of child endangerment. Christopher Stewart was being held at the Newport Beach City Jail without bail and his wife, Tambra, was booked into the same jail on a $10,000 bail.

Trollmann and Giliszer, 49, of Yorba Linda, were being held in lieu of $100,000 each.