A MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE, CONVENIENCE STORE CLERK called the local police Friday morning to report a car that had been parked at a gas pump for over an hour. When the PD arrived, they found a man passed out in the front seat and an active meth lab in the back seat, cooking up a batch just inches away from the Shell station’s self-serve gas pump.
The pumps were immediately shut down by the emergency shut-off and the Murfreesboro FD was dispatched to the haz-mat call. The Haz-Mat squad identified the chemical substances found in the back seat as ammonium nitrate, fluid from a Coleman gas stove, and lithium. “Fluids in the bottles were in the process of chemical reaction and were actively cooking,” said a police spokesman.
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The miscreant, Nathan Beasley, 31, who had apparently passed out from the fumes in his car, was taken into custody and hospitalized for observation. Charges are pending against him after he is released.
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Officers say that Clifft admitted that the smell was coming from a portable meth lab in the back of the vehicle. The after getting Clifft’s permission to search the SUV, police found an electric pill grinder with pseudoephedrine residue inside, lithium batteries, fertilizer pellets, Coleman camp fuel, lye, plastic tubing, plastic bottles and unknown liquids inside the Cherokee.
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