Two Arkansas chemistry
professors were arrested Friday on accusations that they were allegedly making
methamphetamine. One of them was even known as the school's
"Heisenberg," according to KATV
Bradley Allen Rowland,
40, and Terry David Bateman, 45, both of Arkadelphia, were taken into custody
on November 15. Both work at Henderson State University, whose Reynolds Science
Center was closed on October 8 due to an "undetermined chemical
odor."
The subsequent
investigation was headed by Henderson Chief of Police Johnny Campbell and
included participation from Arkadelphia police, a narcotics task force and
Henderson State University. Testing by the university revealed that benzyl
chloride had been found spilled on surfaces in the lab. Benzyl chloride is a
chemical that can be used in dyes, as a photographic developer and to
synthesize methamphetamines.
Rowland and Bateman
have been charged with manufacture of methamphetamine and the use of drug
paraphernalia. While Henderson State University spokesman Tina Hall told the
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the investigation related to the
benzyl chloride spill in the science center also touched on the arrests of the
two teachers, there is no word if the two men made meth on campus.
Rowland noted in an
interview with the Henderson State University Oracle that he enjoys the
long-running, award-winning AMC TV show Breaking Bad, about a cancer-stricken
chemistry teacher named Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who manipulates one of
his ex-students, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), into helping him manufacture and
deal meth to pay for his treatments—and White's subsequent slow evolution away
from morality and toward corruption via power as White becomes a drug lord.
White's dealer alias is "Heisenberg" after the German physicist
Werner Heisenberg.
"I thought it was
a great show," Rowland said in the interview. "It was spot on and
accurate when it came to the science, and, it has gotten a younger, newer
generation interested in chemistry. I feel like it was a wonderful recruiting
tool."
Both men were placed on
administrative leave on October 11, and the Reynolds Science Center re-opened
on October 29 after passing an EPA inspection.
Rowland and Bateman
aren't the only Breaking Bad-related criminals in the news lately. Adolfo
"Flaco" Mitchell, a taco shop chain owner, drew comparisons to the
series' fictional fast food restaurant owner Gus Fring when Georgia police
arrested him for dealing meth on the side.
oh boy....😒
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The old gallows humor. It’s clearly not for everyone who’s never lived outside their comfort zone.
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Sol it’s funny but it’s been Caucasian that taught the little brown brothers how to cook meth
ReplyDeleteLol no. It was the Asians, specially the Koreans and Chinese. They were the ones that sold the high quality super lab meth recipe to the mexican cartels.
DeleteThe Koreans have been making meth since the 60s.
The trailer/Biker speed was always stereotypically seen as low quality and cheap high for low class/rural caucasians .
But Mexican/Asian meth is way more pure.
@2:00p.m it goes back further than that.hitler made meth so his troops could keep fighting longer and not get as cold on the russian front but that didnt work out for him too well thank god!
DeleteAccording to a History Channel documentary upwards of 40% of US housewives were prescribed it in the 50's. They were most likely exaggerating but.. .
DeleteAnd yes...the Germans had Pervatin which was oral methamphetamine in chocolate form amongst others.
The Americans as well as EVERY other country fighting in WWII had their own versions.
Soldiers from every army in the world were twacked out on meth in that war to varying degrees.
I watched a documentary just yesterday where they said how shocked the French were at the speed of the German onslaught. The German tank commanders were going for 3 days without sleep.
It's not unheard of in the annals of history for soldiers on the defensive to postpone sleep for days but I do believe this to likely have been the first case where soldiers on the OFFENSIVE were to go without sleep for multiple nights in a row. Lol.
I've been prescribed to its little cousin Adderall since I was 15.
What! I thought drug traffickers only look like Tony Montana.
ReplyDeleteThe crazy thing about this story is that they’re actual professors. The Breaking Bad series is a great show. Needless to say some people will take the wrong influence from it and try it on their own. That shows message just didn’t come across load and clear to all the masses. So weird.
DeleteSounds like they didn’t even get 1 cook off 😂
ReplyDeleteWow they obviously didn't know that when your cook meth if gives off a chemical smell
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. You would assume using benzyl chloride that they were manufacturing meth using phenyl acetic acid as opposed to ephedrine. however clandestine chemist have been known to use Benzyl chloride and magnesium to form a Grignard reagent and then reacting methylamine and acetaldehyde and using resulting compound to convert the Grignard reagent to meth. The interesting part of this process is if you have a good understanding of organic chemistry all of these chemicals are relatively easily synthesized in a well equipped lab, but if you have no chemistry background and even if you do it can easily go wrong, which is apparently what happened. If you tried to purchase these chemicals you would be arrested in US. It sounds like when they combined the magnesium and Benzyl Chloride that the resulting reaction got out of control and they got caught.
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ReplyDeleteAnd do not blame any motherfacking show or movie for your stupid pendejadas.
Stupid honkys, after they have all the advantages still have to go and fack up, maderfackers.