PLANTATION (CBSMiami) — The lock down is over, and visitors are again of their resort rooms after a full-scale hazmat scare in Plantation led police to a person’s physique inside a crude meth lab.
“It’s been characterized as a very crude operation, what they call like a shake and bake,” stated Lt. Aston Bright with Plantation Fire Department, as he described the invention of some form of illicit drug lab on the La Quinta Inn on the 8100 block of Peters Road in Plantation.
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“The chemicals are contained to that one room, some of chemicals were off gassing they were still processing in some fashion,” added Lt. Bright.
According to officers this all started with a name for an unresponsive grownup male and when Plantation Fire arrived on scene, they discovered a deceased man in his mid-30’s whose id has not but been launched. However, police did say on Sunday the person was from North Florida and he was reportedly on the town for some sort of short-term contract work.
After discovery of the illicit drug lab, officers needed to evacuate the whole resort.
“I was in there for approximately 10-15 minutes literally about to get ready just like getting acquainted bringing all my stuff in the room and then boom evacuation,” stated resort visitor Anthony Black.
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“It’s one of these nutty things you never know what would happen I just want it to be over with, that’s all. It’s really shocking,” added one other visitor Stephen Goldberg.
It took Broward County Hazmat Team a number of hours to scrub up and comprise the hazardous materials.
“Our understanding is this was a more crude operation more than likely for personal use, type deal, so it wasn’t like an industrial type scale operation. We would consider it an illicit lab of some sort and again the investigation is still ongoing,” added Bright.
Officials haven’t but confirmed the reason for demise for the individual discovered within the room, however they do suspect a drug overdose.
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Authorities additionally say a lady was with the person. It’s unclear if she’s going through any costs right now.