{"id":1579,"date":"2007-02-09T09:19:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-09T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T03:23:51","slug":"coffee-pot-mini-meth-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/coffee-pot-mini-meth-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Pot Mini Meth Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According this the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\/global\/story.asp?s=5980064\">local news station<\/a> 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. It :<\/p>\n<p>Ask just about anyone in law enforcement, and they&#8217;ll tell you to be careful if you ever brew coffee in a hotel room.<br \/>\n&#8220;I know enough now that whenever I go to a hotel, regardless of how nice it is, I&#8217;ll never use a coffee pot,&#8221; said Marshall County District Attorney Steve Marshall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/Coffeepot.jpg\" height=\"222\" width=\"331\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Coffeepot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of brewing coffee, coffee pots are sometimes used to brew methamphetamine. And since meth labs in hotels aren&#8217;t anything new, Rick Phillips of the Marshall County Drug Enforcement Unit says there&#8217;s definitely a risk. &#8220;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,&#8221; said Phillips. It&#8217;s common knowledge to those who fight meth, but a shock to your average citizen. Phillips says it&#8217;s pretty easy to tell if a coffee pot has been used to cook meth. It will have a dark reddish-orange stain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. It : Ask just about anyone in law enforcement, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/coffee-pot-mini-meth-lab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}