A man charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of items from Glacier Stone Supply also was allegedly making methamphetamine in his home.

Christopher Scott Hogard pleaded not guilty Thursday in Flathead District Court to a pair of counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs as well as theft and operation of an unlawful clandestine laboratory, all felonies.

A court document alleges that a representative from Glacier Stone Supply contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office on Sept. 23 after locating one of the stolen tools at Tool Palace Pawn Shop. Hogard allegedly had pawned the tool there and told an employee he would be back with more.

The document claims that officers confronted Hogard when he returned with a backpack, in which they found several more tools identified as stolen from Glacier Stone Supply.

Sometime between Sept. 13 and 16, roughly $43,000 worth of tools including welders, air compressors, cordless power tools, chain saws, and hand tools were stolen from Glacier Stone Supply, along with a Ford F-450 service truck, which was later found emptied and abandoned in the parking lot of the Evergreen Boys and Girls Club.

During a later search at Hogard’s home, officers allegedly located several items believed stolen during another burglary, more tools connected to several reported thefts, a bag containing more than a third of a pound of marijuana and a syringe and cotton ball that tested positive for meth.

Officers also allegedly found components of a meth lab. They contacted the Northwest Drug Task Force, which provided agents who allegedly confirmed that it was a meth lab. The lab was then disposed of by a meth clean-up crew.

Hogard is charged in another case with felony burglary, to which he entered a not guilty plea on Aug. 1.

In that case, Hogard is alleged to have broken into and lived in a U.S. 2 East home while the owner was out of town for a year.

When the victim returned home on July 16, he found someone had removed boards from the windows of the home and placed a barricade across the driveway. Deputies watched the home and confronted Hogard when he showed up that evening, a court document alleges.

Hogard allegedly told the deputies he had been in the house three times and had been allowed to store several items there. He was arrested and preliminarily charged with criminal trespassing, which was dropped in favor of a felony charge of burglary after it was determined that he allegedly had stolen from the home and pawned a collectible Hamm’s Beer mirror.

If convicted of all his charges in both cases, Hogard faces up to 80 years in prison and a fine of up to $225,000 as well as any restitution.

Hogard is currently incarcerated in the Flathead County Detention Center, where his combined bond in the two cases is $100,000.

His next hearing in the burglary case is set for Oct. 30, while the next hearing in the theft and meth lab case is set for Dec. 4.

Reporter Jesse Davis may be reached at 758-4441 or by email at jdavis@dailyinterlake.com.