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Authorities Find Meth Lab & Possible Explosives in Truck
KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock ^ | November 30, 2005 | Suleika Acosta

Posted on 11/30/2005 7:02:24 AM PST by Army Air Corps

Three people are in custody Wednesday morning after Lubbock police discovered the possible makings of a meth lab and explosive devices. NewsChannel 11's Suleika Acosta uncovers the details.

At around 7:30 Tuesday night officers stopped a truck near the Driftwood Apartments located at 5800 Toledo. They searched the vehicle and found what looked like a mobile meth lab. That's not all officers found. They also discovered what appeared to be two pipe bombs, one in the bed and one behind the seat of the truck. Officers called in the bomb squad to assist. The squad removed the devices with a special robot. Then they used a disrupter to destroy the pipes in a park across the street.

Authorities tell us they are still investigating whether or not the devices were actual bombs. "It's my understanding right now that it doesn't appear that they were actually explosive devices, we don't know exactly what they were," says Lieutenant.. Roy Bassett.

Just before midnight officers searched one suspect's apartment. Officers tell us searched for more explosive devices and narcotics. At this point they can not tell what they found in the apartment.

The two suspects inside the truck were arrested. A woman at the apartment is also in custody this morning.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: explosives; lubbock; meth; mobilelab; texas
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Yikes, dope peddlers developing mobile meth labs. Considering the danger that fixed meth labs pose, a mobile lab is a moving bomb and chemical hazard.
1 posted on 11/30/2005 7:02:25 AM PST by Army Air Corps
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To: hispanarepublicana

Lubbock news ping.

Wanna ping the usual gang of folks?


2 posted on 11/30/2005 7:03:14 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
The squad removed the devices with a special robot. Then they used a disrupter to destroy the pipes in a park across the street.



Pipe Bombs are better delivered cold.
And it is very cold in space.

3 posted on 11/30/2005 7:05:09 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article Since 1999)
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To: Lazamataz

I had the same reaction when I saw "disruptor" in the body of the story.


4 posted on 11/30/2005 7:06:51 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
They should know better.

Federation cops use photon torpedoes to blow up pipe bombs.

5 posted on 11/30/2005 7:07:42 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article Since 1999)
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To: Baynative

I will try to keep tabs on the story during the day and report any updates.


7 posted on 11/30/2005 7:10:35 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
Authorities tell us they are still investigating whether or not the devices were actual bombs. "It's my understanding right now that it doesn't appear that they were actually explosive devices, we don't know exactly what they were," says Lieutenant.. Roy Bassett.--

--I suspect my tagline applies---

8 posted on 11/30/2005 7:24:49 AM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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I agree. I once knew some folks in LPD. If I had not lost contact with them, then I could ask them for the "inside scoop" on this story.


9 posted on 11/30/2005 7:28:41 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Who was arrested? White boys or Methicans?


10 posted on 11/30/2005 7:30:35 AM PST by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: dennisw

No particulars, yet, on the folks arrested.


11 posted on 11/30/2005 7:31:38 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
My cynicism about such reporting peaked a couple of years ago--

The highway over Hoover Dam was closed for several hours to investigate a "suspicious" object---you could tell from the TV camera shot it was a piece of about 2-inch angle iron about two feet long--it was a clamp of some sort that fell off a highway dep't centerline painting truck--

12 posted on 11/30/2005 7:33:02 AM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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To: Army Air Corps; Ranald S. MacKenzie; GW and Twins Pawpaw; JFC; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Hub Ping


13 posted on 11/30/2005 7:37:31 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (Chuck Cooperstein is a tool.)
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To: Army Air Corps

My bet it was white guys who use their own product. . Mexicans aren't into pipe bombs


14 posted on 11/30/2005 7:46:37 AM PST by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: hispanarepublicana

My folks live near a lake in North Texas and heard a loud explosion one night. Just down the road was a meth lab that no one knew about......... they do now.


15 posted on 11/30/2005 7:51:42 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Lazamataz

Mobile phones, mobile meth labs, mobile strip clubs...we're a nation on the go!


16 posted on 11/30/2005 7:52:30 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: rellimpank

"Pipe bomb"


17 posted on 11/30/2005 2:54:06 PM PST by Ranald S. MacKenzie (Its the philosophy, stupid.)
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To: hispanarepublicana

I heard this on the news today (KFYO). Thanks for the ping.


18 posted on 11/30/2005 5:31:56 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: Baynative
Here is an updated version of the story:

A central Lubbock neighborhood is safe, but Tuesday evening, it was the scene of possible explosives scare. It started when police pulled over a driver for not using his turn signal. But what they found inside the car required additional back-up.

During the traffic stop police found a suspicious device, that looked like a pipe bomb. Bomb technicians were called in to detonate the device at an area park, just feet away from houses and apartments. Police were able to use some high-tech equipment to safely detonate the device.

Lt. Roy Bassett from LPD said, "It is not unusual for drug users to be paranoid and have devices so we didn't know what we were dealing with." One neighbor said, "I left because I thought better safe than sorry." The so-called-bombs turned out to be duds, but the make-shift meth lab was real.

Bassett said, "The truck was pulled over for a traffic stop, but we found what appeared to be a meth lab in the truck." The travelling meth lab gave police enough evidence to get a warrant to search the car owner's apartment, where they found methamphetamine and other narcotics.

Two weeks ago Lubbock police were called to 23rd and Avenue P for a suspicious package. The 'package' was safely removed from the neighborhood, and police then took it to their firing range to x-ray and destroy it. Police say the pipes were detonated in the neighborhood park because it was a large space and it was safer to detonate it there than travel with the device across town. Police also say safety is always their first concern.


You can read the story at the source here.

19 posted on 12/01/2005 6:56:23 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw; Army Air Corps; JFC; Ranald S. MacKenzie

Sad news....I heard on the radio this a.m. that one of the perps was the grandson of the late Congressman George Mahon.


20 posted on 12/01/2005 7:00:32 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (Chuck Cooperstein is a tool.)
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