Street Use: Coffee Pot Mini Meth Lab
According this the local news station in Huntsville Alabama, the ubiquitous cheap Mr. Coffee pot in hotel rooms is often used as a just-in-time makeshift mini-laboratory to make the drug meth.
Ask just about anyone in law enforcement, and they’ll tell you to be careful if you ever brew coffee in a hotel room.
“I know enough now that whenever I go to a hotel, regardless of how nice it is, I’ll never use a coffee pot,” said Marshall County District Attorney Steve Marshall.
Instead of brewing coffee, coffee pots are sometimes used to brew methamphetamine. And since meth labs in hotels aren’t anything new, Rick Phillips of the Marshall County Drug Enforcement Unit says there’s definitely a risk. “The coffee makers that you find in every motel room is an ideal heat source. They mix it up in the coffee pot, put it on a heat source and let it sit there and cook,” said Phillips. It’s common knowledge to those who fight meth, but a shock to your average citizen. Phillips says it’s pretty easy to tell if a coffee pot has been used to cook meth. It will have a dark reddish-orange stain.
Gives a whole new meaning to “I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
In military billeting, it used to be you had a common latrine down at the end of the hall. You would never use the in room coffee maker because most people would piss in the carafe in the middle of the night rather than walk all the way the hall.
What kind of fleabag dumps are we talking about here?
Morning wake-me-up with that little touch of extra service. It’s not a biohazard, it’s a feature.
#3….John….not dumps….my cousin is a General Manager for Raddisson Hotels…..he said they average 6 arrests a week at just three of there Hotels. 1 in Phoenix, 1 in Palm Springs and 1 in L.A..
They figure that 5 get away with it for every 1 that they call the cops on. It’s so bad, that all of their desk clerks and hospitality staff are trained what to look for and are taught the smell.
In Phoenix, the Comfort Inn’s and Days Inn’s are the favorite places for the labs apparently. They have had 67 busts at those hotels in the past year.
It’s common knowledge to those who fight meth, but a shock to your average citizen.
I’ll say it’s a shock. I would have never guessed.
So, uh, what remains in the pot after they are done cooking the meth? Is it something that can’t be cleaned out? Do hotels have a policy of not cleaning coffee pots along with the rest of the room? Is Marshall County District Attorney Steve Marshall a chemist? Is he related to the founders of Marshall County (I just have to ask)?