MORGAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- 14 people face a combined 34 federal charges in a multi-county drug ring bust.

At the heart of the bust, Meth.

But a different kind.

It's called methcathinone.

Though it's known on the street as Cat.

"Just meth, I hadn't heard it called that," says Nancy Parker.

A lot of people haven't heard of methcathinone but that's what law enforcement says they found being cooked up at this home on Back Valley Road in Coalfield during a year long federal undercover operation.

Morgan County Chief Deputy William Angel says, "Oh, it's been around for a long time. It's just not something that we've seen really here."

Chief Angel says the drug still uses pseudo ephedrine but there's a reason people make methcathinone.

"You have to have less chemicals. The process is a little easier. The yield is probably a little bit better and doesn't take as long to do it," says Chief Angel.

Chief Angel says detection can be a little more difficult since it doesn't use the standard things used in making methamphetamine.

"It's a smaller operation. It can be done simply and quickly," says Chief Angel.

But the effects of the drug are just the same to the families of those charged with using them.

"It makes me awful sad, you know, that Tosha got herself in this trouble," says John Richardson.

Richardson is the grandfather of Natasha Richardson, one of the fourteen charged.

He says he's been worried about her because of her mood swings and her staying away from home days at a time.

"I believe mostly you know the people she was running around with really drug her into what she got into," says Richardson.

For Nancy Parker, she just hopes the arrests will do more to get drugs out of her neighborhood.

"When they get arrested then they're right back on the street so I'd like to see them do some time," says Parker.

Sheriff Dennis Ledbetter says they went federal with the investigation in the hopes they would get more time if convicted.

So far 13 of the 14 suspects have been arrested. (CLICK HERE for the mugshots we were able to obtain.)

They are all due in federal court for trial on August 26th.