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Tucson - Hazardous Materials found

Ixion said:
Did you read my post above? Oh well, from this news article:
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I did read it. Sorry, I was just agreeing.


I'm not convinced the news is accurate that a meth lab has been ruled out, however. I'm skeptical and wonder if that just wasn't something a reporter concluded from an offhand police comment.
 
News from yesterday:
Tucson police tell us they wont be able to determine what the man was doing with all these chemicals until sometime later this week.
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Hard to rule out a meth lab if you don't know what the chemicals are. Perhaps the guy was trying a new formula because he couldn't get some of the chemicals he needed for the usual one.

Not saying some kind of bomb making is ruled out, mind you.
 
If it was a meth lab would they really be brining in chemical experts from FBI head quarters in VA?

I read another story that confirmed the McVeigh references and stuff. The media says they have the name but the police and the media will not release it. I think there is a big investigation going on.
 
Biscuit said:
If it was a meth lab would they really be brining in chemical experts from FBI head quarters in VA?

I read another story that confirmed the McVeigh references and stuff. The media says they have the name but the police and the media will not release it. I think there is a big investigation going on.
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I wouldn't rule out other options. But it just because local cops called in the Feds does not mean it wasn't a meth lab.

There's always the possibility it was a white supremacist meth user.
 
I don't know if the police would involve the FBI in a meth lab op or not. Close to where I live earlier this year, the police called the FBI in to assist when ricin was found in a house. But in that case, the police knew immediately what it was.

I would think the Tuscon police would be able to tell immediately whether a scene is a meth lab. There are certain things you need to make meth, and the police know what those things are; and if they're found in a house, the police can be pretty sure what was going on. But the news articles seem to suggest the number and nature of the chemicals found in this house have left the cops completely confused. That makes me more suspicious that it isn't something so (relatively) mundane as a meth lab.
 
Ixion said:
The news story you cited did not contain a meth lab, nor any mention of chemicals. It was about drug trafficking and there is little wonder the FBI was involved.
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Yes, but the FBI is involved in investigating drug trafficking and sometimes that includes production.

There are two things possible here, bombs and drugs. Do you have any other things we should add to the list?

So which bomb making materials require an evacuation after 99% of them are removed?

Which drug making besides meth involves explosions, fires, and toxic chemicals?

I am open to alternative explanations. I just find the current evidence (guy gets burned, potentially dangerous chemicals found, surrounding area needs to be evacuated) more consistent with a meth lab than the contradictory evidence weighs against it, (FBI being called in and the news claim that officials said it wasn't meth). But by no means am I saying it could only be one possible thing.
 
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Here is the latest the 4 day investigation is over and they have nothing to say except,

FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson said Thursday that there was no indication the man was involved in any terrorist activity.
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Than what the hell was going on!?
 
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