BUTLER, Mo. -- A statewide drug crackdown netted hundreds of arrests, and authorities said one of the people taken into custody as part of the one-day enforcement operation was a high school athletic director.

Investigators arrested Butler High School Athletic Director Mitch Warmbrodt, 46, at about 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the high school.

He was wanted on a Vernon County warrant for allegedly acquiring more than 9 grams of the controlled substance ephedrine, authorities said. Investigators also said they found a meth lab on his property.

Missouri was one of 38 states participating in the drug crackdown. It was part of an effort to highlight a U.S. Justice Department grant program that law officers fear could be cut in the federal budget.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said law officers around the state seized nearly 17 pounds of marijuana, more than 4 pounds of cocaine, a little more than 5 ounces of crack cocaine, 691 various pills, 24 weapons and more than $8,000.

The effort also resulted in 16 meth lab busts.

Warmbrodt bought more than 12 boxes of Sudafed in a month at Wilkinson Pharmacy in Rich Hill, Mo., and at the Wal-Mart Pharmacy and Hometown Pharmacy in Butler, according to court records.

Customers have to sign for Sudafed, and buying that much in such a short time period is against the law.

Warmbrodt bought some of the cold medicine at Marcus Wilson's pharmacy, and investigators took the log Warmbrodt signed to use as evidence, Wilson said.

In addition, investigators said they found a meth lab in a barn near Warmbrodt's house, and prosecutors could file charges of manufacturing methamphetamine against Warmbrodt and another man.

Warmbrodt's wife is the principal of an elementary school, but prosecutors didn't file any charges against her. No one answered the door at Warmbrodt's house on Thursday, where he and his wife live with their two children.