Friday, June 29, 2012
Marshall County Tribune
By Clint Confehr
Senior Staff Writer
A Virginia man was arrested Monday and charged with initiating the process of cooking methamphetamine in a Lewisburg motel where three crews cleaned several rooms Tuesday.
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Task Force Director Tim Lane explained the need for precautions and revealed a larger problem.
"What if no one knew he was there?" Lane asked. "He'd have been successful and left. Who would have known that it had been used as a meth lab? People who stay there later get sick from the residue."
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Guests in a motel room used as a meth lab "are going to feel terrible; nausea and headaches, irritation of the eyes." Tim Miller said. "It would be like being poisoned... Somebody with respiratory problems could die."
Officers who investigated similar cases years ago are suffering ill effects now, he said...
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From this experience, the innkeeper concluded, "This happens all the time at hotels. It's not an isolated incident."
