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Subscribe to RSSDelaware State Police are searching for a man accused of manufacturing methamphetamine in his mother’s house.
On Sunday morning, a woman in Felton, Del., called the police reporting a toxic substance on her property. The woman told police that she had been collecting laundry to wash when she found a rag sticking out of a cooler in her son’s bedroom. She pulled the rag from the cooler, became overwhelmed by fumes and then quickly dragged the cooler outside onto a porch, she said.
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Detectives from the Delaware State Police Kent County Drug Unit found key ingredients involved in making methamphetamine at the house, according to investigators. Teams then safely dismantled and removed the lab from the home.
Police are currently searching for the woman’s son, John Bradley, 32, who was not home when they arrived. Warrants are on file for his arrest for manufacturing methamphetamine.
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Wow! And you thought getting caught by mom with that Playboy magazine under your mattress was bad!
My mom was always complaining that I made a mess in my room, not a meth in my room.
So it wasn't just his socks then?
This is a story???? Good Lord, if they reported about every meth lab found in a home, there would be no room for any REAL news!!
Nothing says I love you like calling cops and reporting your illeagal drug operation.
You got that right zapain, just this weekend two meth labs and a dump for getting rid of the associated chemicals was found. This crap is all over the place. Seems like you can't go anywhere nowadays without running into people who are sweating, shaking and, in general, messed up.
Yeah, maddog, I see a lot of twitchy weirdos in the EtOH aisle too...
Mommy's...WHY DO YOU ALLOW YOUR LOSER ADULT SONS TO LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE!?
PUSH THEM OUT OF THE NEST ALREADY!!!
Then and only then might they be forced to get a REAL JOB and become SELF-SUFFICIENT.
@maddog-752810.....you mean like republicans since Obama won???
My brother is a 46 year old druggie and drunk who lives with MOMMY. She has forsaken her three adult daughters who are upstanding, productive women and all of her thirteen grand and great grand children for this POS!!! She refuses to see why we longer go over because he is so verbally abusive, high and drunk. WE ARE DONE! She is as ADDICTED to HIM as he is to his DRUGS and ALCOHOL. I call it INCEST WITHOUT THE SEX...CREEPY!!!
Mother's, wake up and THROW THE BUMS OUT. It will be the BEST THING you could EVER do for them!
I love this Mom.There are so many in denial when it comes to their law breaking children.This Mom did the right thing and we should send her flowers and have a parade in her honor.
George Burns
That was sooooooooooooooooooo funny!! Thank you
And I thought I was bad for still living with my parents until age 25...................................
key2joy, are you my sister? The brother you just described is EXACTLY like my brother, except my brother is 45. He lives with mom, she takes care of him, he won't work. etc.
It is horrible and disgusting.
PURPLE, I'm sure there are MILLIONS in this world that share a similar story. My brother has 4 children that he has never provided for. They have seen him high and drunk their entire lives. My mother has ALWAYS defended him and has now lost the support of her daughters. My father always told her that her son was her Little Jesus because she WORSHIPED him from the second he was born. Not in a natural way but in a very UNNATURAL WAY...CREEPY! My father has passed and it has only gotten worse. I would love to see someone write a book about mothers and their loser sons called, "Gigolo's Without The Sex".
Mothers need to know THEY ARE NOT DOING their BABY BOYS a favor by CODDLING them.
HOW SAD and SICKENING for ALL CONCERNED!
Hopefully mom wakes up and kick the loser into the street when he gets out of jail. Bad enough he is living at home at 32 with mom doing his laundry but he manufactures drugs in the house. He really doesn't care about his mother if the cops where in a bad mood they could try to take her house even though she did nothing wrong.
Thankfully, there is Obamacare. If I had a 26-year old kid living at home, they would need medical insurance.
I agree this guy is a @!$%#ing loser................at age 32 and living at home, then doing this to his Mom. She could have lost her home and been homeless.
If you had a twenty six year old at home, he or she would not be they. I agree we should be thankful for Obamacare.
GM Bill
Wonder if the meth maker was a troll that lived in his mother's basement? LOL
gm Jack,
Tweakers on the internet? Oh, please, say it isn't so!
I would pack up my bags and move while he was in jail. And not tell him where I was going, of course! Good riddance!
The notion that a parents insurance company should be forced to cover a grown adult up to the age of 26 is ridiculous, The law considers any person not physically or mentally incapable of taking care of themselves to be an adult, At age 18 I was shipped off to fight a war in a foreign country, when I returned home I had my own apartment and was working and saving towards my future, By the age of 26 I was married and saving up to build my first home after which we could start our family, We have not progressed in this country, We have regressed, We coddle and shelter adults that should be out making their way in life and not home depending on their parents and parents insurance. Obamacare is based on the premise that everyone should be mandated to purchase their own insurance yet it allows adults up to 26 to be covered by their parents insurance, So are they not the same freeloaders that you obamacare pushers were claiming was causing the rise in health insurance costs, And yes I know that there is an addition cost added to the parents policy but that cost does not really cover the full amount it would cost to cover that 26 year old adult so that means that someone else winds up subsidizing that cost, Obamacare will not decrease the cost of insurance or healthcare, It will only increase it.
Should read - The law considers any person age 18 or older not physically or mentally incapable...
This poor entrepreneur, small businessman, and job creator overburdened by his mother's needless and burdensome regulation is now paying too much of his profits on overhead and will have to layoff the staff he loves and cares for like family.
Devil's Son,
Well played, sir.
LostInThePineBarrens, the reason the age was extended to 26 was because there are still plenty of young adults that are still in school working on degrees at that age, that need health care coverage. This became a problem for me while I was still working on my masters in engineering. I was kicked off my mother's insurance at the age of 24, and at that point I had a pre-existing condition and could not afford to go without coverage. I somehow managed to stay on COBRA until I graduated the following year (and luckily found a job right away), even though it cost me and her about $700/mo..which we really couldn't afford. I've known of other students that became sick while in school and had to file bankruptcy before they ever finished school due to medical bills. What a great start to their careers, eh? It's a very good thing that parents can now keep kids on their plan until 26..it doesn't mean the kid is a loafer sitting on his/her ass.
Didn't take long for a local meth lab to be turned into a Obama thread. Some many forget that the first mandatory insurance regulations were put in place by Romney in Ma. Odd that he also put in a assault rifle ban and many more gun restrictions.
Thank you KyEngineer - you're a testimonial! Having to explain a lot of policies to the masses because they will run with a sound byte and blast it all over the place, not really knowing what it's all about is such a burden. Ignorance can be a very scary situation.
There is nothing in Obamacare that makes the provision of covering until age 26 limited to "children" that are still pursuing their Masters degree. It covers all of the million of other children that finished their HS diploma, bachelors and dropouts that can't find a job of their own.
KYengineer...So because you are working on your Masters degree that somehow makes you less of an adult and unable to pay for your own health insurance...Your choice to seek a master degree benefits you and I should not have to subsidize it, How are you any different than a person who is not living with their parents that is working hard and trying to better themselves that is forced to purchase insurance or face a fine.
Observing2, Kyengineer is a testimonial to nothing but selfishness, How are they any different than someone who does not live at home and is pursuing a master degree or other form of education and is paying for their own health insurance. If anything still living at home should make them more able to pay for their own insurance.
Lost In the Pine Barrens:
The notion that I have to pay high property taxes, a good chunk of which go towards the local school system, when I have no children in school is ridiculous!
The notion that I have to pay taxes - some of which will go towards roads I never use, is ridiculous!
Etc., and so on, ad infinity...
Collective good for society - it's not just some nutty radical concept.
Uh, because once you have a pre-existing condition, no one will even let you buy health insurance if you wanted to, most especially not the condition I have. And although the school does provide some kind of health insurance plan, it wouldn't have covered my disease. So people like you would rather someone like me drop out of school and get any job I can just so I can get health insurance, and give up on my education.
Just how do you think any young adult that wants to pursue higher education can afford health insurance? At what age do you think a child is supposed to be kicked off their parents' insurance? 18? 20?22? Besides, just how would you subsidize anything? You aren't paying the premium on these parents' plans.
We aren't coddling adults in any way whatsoever, we are giving them the leg up that they need. It does no one in this country any good when young adults, that are our future, are struggling before they've even left school because of medical bills. It's a shame that you see something that is necessary for struggling students as a 'selfish act.' IMHO, it is you who are selfish.
And btw, I'm way too old to take advantage of this change in the law, but it's nice to know that perhaps my future children won't have the same problems I had.
Student health insurance purchased through one's academic institution is often a very good buy, because most of the policyholders are young and healthy--as a grad student at 40, I could buy student health insurance for less than many employers require for premium contribution. But unemployment is high for young adults. My niece is 25 and, due to a disability, unable to drive or to work many jobs--but doesn't get SSDI because she has worked throughout. Unfortunately, although she works full time at a fast food restaurant, she is not able to sign up for employer health insurance--she is not considered "regular fulltime" under company rules. Since in our state she also cannot get medical assistance (even with a spend-down) she relies on a hospital charitable program that writes off a portion of her medical expenses. Her parents are both disabled and on medicare, which of course does not have a provision for insurance for the children of the medicare recipients. There are a lot of people who work full time hours but are not eligible for benefits because of how their job is defined, even if it is a single job. However, in the early phases of Obamacare the percentage of uninsured in the US has decreased. My niece is waiting for 2014, at which point she should be able to get some kind of coverage.
KY Engineer,
Just having a pre-existing condition does not keep you from purchasing insurance, you just may not get it at the rate you want or may have a rider on the policy.
g'day Jack and Bill, wonder if the cops confiscated his madonna posters along with his x-box and twinkies. This one sounds like a real piece of work.
LostInThePineBarrens...
It's voluntary. If you don't want your kid covered, just drop him/her from the policy. A part of Emancipation, if you please. Personally, I'd like to keep mine even longer while he's still in school, doing well academically, and without a job. Luckily, he gets insurance with the University for himself. Just too bad he has to borrow so much to stay in school. (Another near miss since Romney won't be able to stop the loans.)
Well, I have Multiple Sclerosis Tracy, and I have indeed been turned down for individual health insurance policies. Since graduation, I've always had group coverage which can't deny my pre-existing condition. And I've also been turned down for life insurance, long term care insurance, and disability insurance that I've applied for individually. Luckily I've since had a group life insurance plan that was I able to convert (when I left the job) with no medical questions asked, so I do at least have that now.
I was diagnosed with my disease at the ripe old age of 22, so I didn't get much chance to prepare for the insurance situation. I'm well aware that come 2014 I can't be turned down for an individual insurance policy, but whether I can afford it or not is another question entirely. Thankfully, my husband is well employed and has decent group coverage, otherwise I'd be screwed.
SR McMahon.Tell your niece to move to in California.Our state offers Medical even to what is called Healthy Families.A family of four who makes $42,000.00 a year qualifies.A part time disabled person might be able to receive Medicaid.Illegals get MediCal because they use phony identification etc. As a taxpayer I don't mind paying taxes for somebody like your niece who works in spite of a disability.
"Hey mom, thanks for giving me a place to stay."
How is this front page news? This happens daily in the Midwest. Oh right, it's because it's on one of the coasts. It's not news unless it happens on a coast.
Really - not too unusual. A search could find 5,000 children's meth labs in the parents' houses in the US.
Being reported by Mom is a bit different - many of the cooks are sharing with Mom and Dad (either meth, profits, or both.) Don't be greedy - share with the landlord (and the local police, if necessary.)
It's a slow news day. Besides he was doing it under his mother's nose and she turned him in not knowing what the stuff was.
Besides I think it's funny (and fitting) as hell that his mother called the police on him. Hopefully the authorities won't be jackasses and take her house away.
Thanks MOM.
There was a Assistant Nurse where I live who set up a Meth Lab in the attic of a nursing home. It blew up and caught the building on fire. Nobody was hurt but you have to say are you serious??? The Meth Heads and other hard core drug addicts just don't care.
This son of a B is going to jail for quite some time. The law does not play with this rat poisoning which kills many everyday.
At 32, living with mom is not a man. It is a child.
A man-child.
No, he's not a man. He's a tweeker, and it's too bad it didn't blow up on him one day when his mother was out of the house. Tweekers are no longer human, in that their brains are so deranged by the meth that the only thing in the world that matters to them is getting more meth. The only good tweeker is a smoked tweeker.
My Name Is Earl......
good way to blow up the house...acetone is nasty stuff...kid should be locked up...
"Mom, the meth lab! @!$%#!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bMs04JK0BQ
Duh, breaking news, there are thousands of meth labs in Anytown ,USA. War on drugs, gimme a break!
News flash, In states where medical marijuana use is legal crime rates have soared, Californias crime rate including violent and non violent crime in areas where medical marijuana dispensaries are located has risen substantially and shows no signs of leveling off or slowing down. Drug abusers commit crimes to support their drug use. I would rather pay to keep a drug abuser in jail that have him break into my home or rob or carjack me or worse yet. Drug users are scum.
"crime in areas where medical marijuana dispensaries are located has risen substantially"
References?
LostInThePinBarrens,The crimes are due to the drug cartel employees,if you want to call them that,who grow pot in open fields and in Yosemite.People try to steal the plants and that is what those crimes are about.If it was legalized these guys would go back to where they came from and it could be regulated and taxed which equals less crime.Marijuana is not a drug,it is an herb.
Meth, what a bunch of crap. All you dummys who use it will be seeing an oncologist in a few years. Stupid people on meth, example, Honey boo bbo's who frequent walmart in spandex 5 sizes to small, dirty T shirts with nascar on it, and a thirst for lite beer and wiskey.
Those dummies don't have time to read this (If they can still read) so it's a waste of time to talk to them here, or to their face either.
Meth heads fry their brains to the point that present as schizophrenics.they then go down to the Social Security office and voila, a $945.00 check every month.They live on the street and spend that check shoving meth up their nose.When the money runs out they commit crimes to support their habit.Meth addicts are scarier than heroin addicts.
The poor guy was just trying to make enough money so he could move out of mom's house. She only reported him so that her little boy wouldn't move out on his own and leaver her all a lone.
How dare she invade his privacy like that. She should be locked up!
LOL I bet you would be shocked at how many people would feel that way. Sad really.
Busted because your mom does your laundry.
Where in the article does it say the guy is 26. I've read where he is 32. Doesn't matter. He's way to old to be living in Mom's basement and having her do his laundry. Oh and don't forget his day job in the lab as a mad scientist. He's exceeded his quota of "time outs." Go directly to jail and do not pass anyone.
Hey, the guy's gotta make a living somehow! :)
There is nothing funny about methamphetamine.
No, but there is something funny about being busted by mom.
Typical doper.
32 years old, living in his mom's basement, committing felony drug offenses. What do you want to bet he's never held gainful employment in his entire life?
That's because his co-dependent mother has not cut the cord. She is crippling him. This situation is all to common, unfortunately. Shame on him - and shame on her.
That's right usafirst, don't make him take responsibility for his actions in full. How dare anyone be made to take responsibility for anything. While your at it, why don't you blame the 18th century "Eurasian Gobat Worshipers" because had they not done what they did, this wouldn't have happened today!
The dope head is a piece of crap, flush the toilet! Besides, unless you are him, you don't know that she hasn't tried to make him leave and he has bullied his way to stay.
Uh oh, somebodies gonna be in trouble when they get home. Yikes
Sounds like the teabgger across the road...he was a flag waving supporter of Bush's faux war on terror in Iraq...until his kid wanted to join and go fight...the neighbor literally bribed the kid with home and cars to keep him from joining...lmao
You are 32 years old.You need to get out and find a job and a girlfriend. If not I will find a way to get you out.
32 and still at home???
Breaking Bad?
We could just legalize it like we have pot and save some jail cells and make more tax money...
Give a druggie an inch and they'll demand a mile.
Your statement is why we can never legalize pot in this country.
Exactly my point. I was being sarcastic. BTW, Colorado and Washington just passed a law allowing for recreational pot use and those were some of the arguemnts for why it should be allowed. My rebuttal is that we will only have more stupid unemployed losers. Welfare use will go up and it will do nothing to help crime. High people still do stupid things whether or not the use of pot is legal... It is a slow fade. Allow pot and next it will be meth...
This is quite clearly an all out assault on free enterprise. The Mom probably voted for Obama.
What's more, she probably charged him rent, leaving him no choice but to sell meth.
Can you imagine his resume? Meth maker looking for legal job. Very creative. Good with chemistry.