The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency is investigating a suspected methamphetamine lab in Buxton.

Agents were called to a house at 125 Old Thompson Road near the town line with Gorham and Standish on Tuesday, police said.

Members of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency approach the home at 125 Old Thompson Road in Buxton on Tuesday to investigate a possible methamphetamine lab. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

Drug enforcement agents take samples from a “one-pot” bottle that was found in the trash outside the home at 125 Old Thompson Road in Buxton. The evidence was moved to the town’s public works facility, where it was evaluated. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

Members of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency go through a burn pile on the property of 125 Old Thompson Road in Buxton. They said they discovered three "one-pot" bottles used to make methamphetamine in the pile Tuesday. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

A “one-pot” bottle used to make methamphetamine was found in the trash outside. The evidence was moved to the town’s public works department, where it can be evaluated by the state’s clandestine laboratory team.

Police plan to continue the investigation inside the house, also.

The incident is the 53rd suspected meth lab response by the MDEA this year.