Fresno traffic stop leads to discovery of meth lab at retirement community
 

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) --
A man living in a senior citizen village is accused of cooking meth in his apartment.


Fresno police say they made a routine traffic stop on Robert Short, 64, at Olive and Rowell on Saturday night and found he had meth in his car. Investigators then went to Short's apartment near Willow and Butler, where they say he was cooking and distributing drugs.



http://abc30.com/news/fresno-traffic-sto...ty/114986/

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Not surprising, I could probably throw one rock from my front step and hit three meth labs.

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Not surprising, I could probably throw one rock from my front step and hit three meth labs.

 

yikes, don't light a match man

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yikes, don't light a match man

I thought East Coasters liked to party?

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Walts alive

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I thought East Coasters liked to party?

I knew that grape farming thing was bogus. This whole time you been forcing a group of geriatrics to manufacture the devils foot powder. How much meth can you fit inside a grape?

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Looking to troll? Don't bother, we supply our own.

 

 

I knew that grape farming thing was bogus. This whole time you been forcing a group of geriatrics to manufacture the devils foot powder. How much meth can you fit inside a grape?

You know too much already...

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Not surprising, I could probably throw one rock from my front step and hit three meth labs.

Geez...what kind of farming do you do?? :blink:

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Geez...what kind of farming do you do?? :blink:

Older article but you get the gist:


Meth's availability and its potential for abuse combine to create the biggest drug threat in the Central Valley, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Intelligence Center. From 2009 to 2010 methamphetamine busts in the Central Valley more than tripled to 1,094 kilograms, or more than 2,400 pounds, the report says.


Large tracts of farmland with isolated outbuildings are an ideal place to avoid detection, which is why the region is home to nearly all of the nation's "super labs," controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organizations, said John Donnelly, resident agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office in Fresno.


"They have the potential to make 150 pounds (68 kilograms) per (each) cook," he said. "There are more super labs in California than anywhere else. Every week another office calls us — St. Paul, Dayton, Kansas, Texas — and says, 'We've got a meth case here' and they say the suspects are from Turlock or Visalia. We're slinging it all over the country from here."

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-21/murder-meth-capital/52726822/1'>http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-21/murder-meth-capital/52726822/1</a>

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Older article but you get the gist:

Meth's availability and its potential for abuse combine to create the biggest drug threat in the Central Valley, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Intelligence Center. From 2009 to 2010 methamphetamine busts in the Central Valley more than tripled to 1,094 kilograms, or more than 2,400 pounds, the report says.

Large tracts of farmland with isolated outbuildings are an ideal place to avoid detection, which is why the region is home to nearly all of the nation's "super labs," controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organizations, said John Donnelly, resident agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office in Fresno.

"They have the potential to make 150 pounds (68 kilograms) per (each) cook," he said. "There are more super labs in California than anywhere else. Every week another office calls us — St. Paul, Dayton, Kansas, Texas — and says, 'We've got a meth case here' and they say the suspects are from Turlock or Visalia. We're slinging it all over the country from here."<a class="bbc_url" href='http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-21/murder-meth-capital/52726822/1'>http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-21/murder-meth-capital/52726822/1</a>

Around here most of the meth labs you hear about being busted is usually in some skanky hotel room somewhere!

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Around here most of the meth labs you hear about being busted is usually in some skanky hotel room somewhere!

 

Every time a mobile home burns in these parts, I assume it was another would-be chemist having a setback.

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

Every time a mobile home burns in these parts, I assume it was another would-be chemist having a setback.

People should have paid more attention in chem class!!

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???