{"id":1838,"date":"2006-12-01T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/its_all_trailer_park_until_someone_blows_their_mind_out.html"},"modified":"2006-12-01T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T18:58:47","slug":"its_all_trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/its_all_trailer.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Trailer Park Until Someone Blows Their Mind Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if it was just a matter of time before methamphetamines showed up in urban areas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12012006\/news\/regionalnews\/crystal_palace_regionalnews_todd_venezia__erika_martinez_and_stefanie_cohen.htm\">no one probably expected this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The trailer-park drug known as &#8220;hillbilly crack&#8221; has been putting on the Ritz lately &#8212; as federal drug agents uncovered a crystal-meth lab inside the $6,000-a-month Manhattan penthouse of a bank executive, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Knibb, an information-technology vice president at Citigroup, ran the sophisticated drug operation from the living room of his luxury apartment overlooking the United Nations, said Drug Enforcement Administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Knibb &#8212; who makes an estimated $250,000 a year &#8212; allegedly told authorities that he had decided to make his own methamphetamines because he could not find a reliable drug dealer after moving to New York from Seattle two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Knibb was one of 10 alleged do-it-yourself drug makers busted this week as part of a federal anti-meth sweep dubbed Operation Red Fusion.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To find a meth lab . . . in a penthouse in New York City is shocking, as well a frightening,&#8221; said John Gilbride, special agent in charge of the Manhattan DEA office.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if it was just a matter of time before methamphetamines showed up in urban areas no one probably expected this: The trailer-park drug known as &#8220;hillbilly crack&#8221; has been putting on the Ritz lately &#8212; as federal drug agents uncovered a crystal-meth lab inside the $6,000-a-month Manhattan penthouse of a bank executive, authorities said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}