Hey! These guys stole my money-making idea!
Seriously, though .. now I am worried about what my neighbors might be brewing in their apartments, considering that I live half a block away from an infamous "drug alley" where I can purchase nearly any illegal drug or gun or who knows what else in less than 24 hours' time.
A Citigroup executive turned his fancy 38th-floor penthouse apartment overlooking the United Nations into a crystal meth lab, one of nine secret dope factories shut down by drug agents, federal officials said yesterday.
He and nine other New Yorkers, including a Fulbright scholar at Columbia who wanted to stay awake to write his dissertation, were charged with setting up the toxic do-it-yourself labs across the metro area.
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The most prominent alleged mad meth scientist was Michael Knibb, a vice president for information technology for Citigroup. He was tracked ordering 100 grams of meth's component chemical, court papers allege.
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Because flammable chemicals are used in the making of the highly addictive meth, one home lab in six triggers potentially dangerous explosions, he said.
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These labs are being found in several counties in Ohio also. Not only in residencial homes (http://www.10tv.com/?sec=search&story=10tv/content/pool/200609/19380070… ) but in the back of pick-up trucks and vans parked just anywhere.(south of Newport the driver of a suspected mobile meth lab was killed). Even Ohio hunters are being warned when out in the woods, http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061…. The selling of it is everywhere even the steps of a church: Earvin Hendon, 24, of Frederick Avenue, was charged Sept. 23 with having counterfeit controlled substances. Police said they found Hendon on the steps of a church in the first block of East Tallmadge Avenue, where there have been complaints from residents about drug deals. Here is an ER report:http://www.dispatch.com/science/science.php?story=dispatch/2006/11/28/2… . Now the State has launched a Meth.website: article, http://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/articles/2006/12/01/news/front_pag… website, http://www.ag.state.oh.us/
November 30, 2006 - National Methamphetamine Awareness Day,A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America : http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061128.html
Mike was cooking meth for meth, not money. He has enough money from his previous employment.