Drug factory found in retirement home

Reuters ^

[Jimmyclyde]

Drug factory found in retirement home

MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - In a quiet suburban Phoenix retirement enclave, the word "seizure" usually means an urgent trip to the hospital. On Friday, it meant a trip to jail. Armed with a search warrant, authorities swooped down on a suspected methamphetamine lab inside a home at Leisure World in Mesa, arresting 71-year-old resident Patrice Wentworth and her 44-year-old live-in boyfriend Michael Davino.

"It's something pretty different," Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Reuters. "I don't remember coming up with a person of this age before in something like this."

Sheriff's investigators learned of the possible illegal operation inside this 6,000-person community from an informant, and moved in after a two-month undercover investigation, Arpaio said. Estimates are that the small lab could have made as much as two ounces at a time.

The white-haired Wentworth and her much younger companion sat in chairs in the street, separated by several vehicles, as authorities combed the residence for additional evidence.

Davino told Reuters that he was only doing research on the drug and was not planning to manufacture it. Wentworth denied any knowledge of the drug operation.

Sheriff's officials said the couple had been together for six years.

[Jimmyclyde]

Drug warriors attacking old people again.

When will the madness stop?

Granny and her boyfriend were just making a little meth.

[oceanperch]

Unreal forty years younger

[Libloather]

All of this type of crime and corruption will disappear as soon as the Liberteens get their way...

[Destructor]

Oh no! Black market Geritol!! *Gasp*

[varon]

Unreal forty years younger

Ahem, try 27 ;-)

[FITZ]

methamphetamine lab inside a home at Leisure World in Mesa, arresting 71-year-old resident Patrice Wentworth and her 44-year-old live-in boyfriend

I thought methamphetamines were bad for you ----but a 71 year old woman with a 44 year old boyfriend isn't doing too bad.

[LibertarianInExile]

Arpaio's boys acted on a tip "from an informant."

I can imagine the informant. Old biddy across the street calls the JOE Hotline (1-GET-JOE-ONTV).

"That old lady's been hoppin' on a young un! Bust `em, Sheriff Joe--that's gotta be agin' the law in Leisure World!"

And Deputy Dawg, making sure that the neighbors don't get too mad so Joe keeps his job, visits, smells the stench of a meth lab, and busts the huge, two-ounce producing operation. Gawrsh, two ounces! They might have supplied Granny's lover!

In fact, that actually might explain how Granny kept the young `un in her stable. The crone turned him into a methhead and got him addicted to...love, of course. ROFLMAO!

[Under the Radar]

Oh my goodness, unbelieveable. It is impossible to parody libertarians, because any outlandish concept you can come up with is so close to the truth as to render the parody unfunny.

Yes, isn't it awful that the State thinks it has a vested interest in limiting meth labs? Those awful drug warriors!

[unspun]

[lawdude]

"...and busts the huge, two-ounce producing operation. Gawrsh, two ounces!"

Would you mind if I put 2 oz. of meth into your kids? Two ounces is one hell of a lot of meth. And I don't believe that 2 oz. represents the total production, completed or contemplated.

[unspun]

WHITE ROOTS FOUND IN BLACK MARKET

[Jimmyclyde]

I thought methamphetamines were bad for you ----but a 71 year old woman with a 44 year old boyfriend isn't doing too bad.

Ya lets see, should I take my vitamins or shot some meth this morning?

Oh and by the way they are doing "too bad". There in jail.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Davino told Reuters that he was only doing research on the drug and was not planning to manufacture it.

Ah yes, the Pete Townshend defense.

[FreeTally]

Would you mind if I put 2 oz. of meth into your kids?

Who was putting meth in kids?

[DAnconia55]

Yes, isn't it awful that the State thinks it has a vested interest in limiting meth labs? Those awful drug warriors!

If Meth was legal, it wouldn't be produced in clandestine labs in neigborhood, ever.

It would be made by Glaxo, or some other huge multinational.

[dark_lord]

"Unalienable right to own hash, PCP, ricin, C4, smallpox & plutonium."

Hey, hey, hey! I object. I should have the right to own all that stuff. Not you guys, however, just me!

[unspun]

It would be made by Glaxo, or some other huge multinational.

Sell it in 7-11's on every corner. Advertise in Teen Beat, MTV, and VH-1.

Have clowns toss it out at every Fourth of July Parade.

[MrLeRoy]

All of this type of crime and corruption will disappear as soon as the Liberteens get their way...

How many people have moonshine stills in their homes?

[Jimmyclyde]

WOD...BUMP

[SandfleaCSC]

...see dexadrine