http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2015/07/fbi-and-congress-are-investigating-if-meth-lab-exploded-federal-building/118751/
By Eric Katz
Govexec.com
July 30, 2015
A federal employee may have recently learned the hard way that cooking
meth should be left to the chemistry experts.
The FBI and a congressional committee are investigating whether a federal
worker was manufacturing methamphetamine in a federal building after a
room exploded earlier this month.
After a July 18 explosion at a building at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus, authorities found
many of the key ingredients for making meth and a recipe for the drug,
according to News4, the NBC’s Washington, D.C., affiliate. The House
Science, Space and Technology Committee is looking into whether a federal
police lieutenant who was injured in the blast was involved in cooking the
meth.
The lieutenant resigned from NIST last week, according to The Washington
Post. The officer originally told authorities the blast occurred after
trying to refill a butane lighter.
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