a methamphetamine rocket

[faustus]

while doing a bit of reading into meth, came across this one:

http://www.dea.gov/programs/forensicsci/mi...005/mg1005.html

 

- INTELLIGENCE BRIEF -

 

 

 

LARGE MODEL ROCKET (SEIZED FROM A VEHICLE IN MISSOURI) USED TO CONCEAL - AND POTENTIALLY DISCARD - ICE METHAMPHETAMINE

 

 

 

[From the NDIC Narcotics Digest Weekly 2005;4(36):2

Unclassified, Reprinted with Permission.]

 

 

 

 

 

Photo 12

 

On July 15, 2005, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri announced the federal grand jury indictment of two Kentucky men on charges that they had conspired to distribute methamphetamine. The two Caucasian males had obtained ice methamphetamine from Mexican sources of supply in Omaha (NE) and were transporting the drugs to Louisville (KY) for distribution. The men concealed the ice methamphetamine in the body of a motorized, 3-foot hobby rocket connected by wires to the vehicle's cigarette lighter (see Photo 12). If stopped by law enforcement officers en route to their destination, they planned to open the trunk of the vehicle, raise the methamphetamine-filled rocket into launching position using a string and pulley system, and launch the rocket into the air (see Photo 13). The two men had tested a similar rocket filled with 2 pounds of gravel that reached a height of about 1,200 feet and, based on the results of that test, expected the plastic bags containing the ice methamphetamine to melt or disintegrate and the drugs to scatter into the air. On June 24, 2005, the men had an opportunity to test their device when a Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) trooper attempted to stop their vehicle on Interstate 70 in Callaway County. The vehicle exited the interstate and entered a restaurant parking lot; however, the two men failed to activate the rocket. The driver then fled the vehicle and discarded a small bag containing approximately 2 grams of methamphetamine, while the passenger remained in the vehicle. The trooper and a backup officer apprehended the men, searched the vehicle, and discovered the rocket as well as devices that appeared to be pipe bombs hidden in the trunk. Officers with the MSHP bomb squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were called to the scene and determined that the devices were PVC pipes constructed to resemble pipe bombs. Officers seized 2 pounds of ice methamphetamine concealed in the hobby rocket, the 2 grams of methamphetamine that the driver had tossed after fleeing the vehicle, 38 grams of ice methamphetamine that had been concealed in the three PVC pipes, and 14 grams that had been concealed in a false-bottomed can, as well as 105 hydrocodone, 41 Viagra (sildenafil citrate), 39 Xanax (alprazolam), 32 Cialis (tadalafil), and 7 Klonopin (clonazepam) tablets, and $13,534.

 

 

 

Photo 13

 

NDIC Comment: Drug distributors often use creative methods to conceal drugs during transportation but rarely develop such an elaborate means of discarding the drugs in the event of law enforcement interdiction. This scheme indicates the extent to which traffickers will go to protect drug shipments.

[synaesthesia]

haha funny.

havent you heard ? Methampetamine is the new fuel to power the space shuttles and to power hobby rockets! i swear thats what the guy told me at the hobby shop officer.

[BlackDragon]

Ha Makes my spore laden rocket seem not soo far fetched!!

Ingenious stuff.... imagine the hours of thought and effort put into that plan!!

Edited December 14, 2006 by BlackDragon

[Amulte]

that is pure genius in a way. but if the rocket did work, i wonder what their explaination for running from the cops to launch a rocket would be...

have moved this to the Chilli Space forums, its not much for chemistry discussion unless the fuel for the rocket were the topic LOL

[apothecary]

I'm sure this has been posted before, they wouldn't need to explain anything I guess, just say "no comment", as long as the cops couldn't prove it had meth in it then there's no drug charge.

This idea has "I've been awake for four days because I own 2 pounds of meth" written all over it

(ps: 2 pounds ~= 1 kilogram)

[Μορφέας]

hehe the Thread heading should say

I want a meth rocket to blow up over my back yard

'....life could be a dreammmmmmmmm baaduuuuu da deeededede..'

[MelbourneMadness]

Thanks twix, this has given me quite a laugh.

To go to all that effort and imagination to conceal and have an escape plan for your meth then only to do a runner thru the car park in typical tweaker fashion.

Good in theory i guess.......

Edited December 20, 2006 by MelbourneMadness