Needles in your fingernails

I just started a new meth project, this one in Orem. The owner is a guy who has done a good deal of business with me over the years - he’s a mortgage agent.

So this is a condo, on the bottom level of an 8-unit building. I’ll explain why that ‘s important in a minute. The client had been having problems with this client and had asked me earlier to go sample the home for meth. It came up positive all right - the lab result was 68 for the sample set of 3 locations. That’s bad. It might have been a lab. 

So now the client walks up to the door to get these guys out of the house and tells them they have a 3 hour time period to be gone. There are other individuals in the home, and they’re living there too. He tells them to get out and this big tattooed dude walks up to him and says “you can’t do that - I have squatter’s rights”. 

Squatter’s rights? Apparently yes, there is such a thing. They have to be given 3 days notice to move out of a place they should never entered in the first place. That’s just insane. Who’s running this country?

So they get a cop, who tells them they can either have their 3 days and then get arrested, or just get out. They choose plan B, then they get a few minutes again. The client told me they were throwing stuff out the window (computers, etc), but not moving quickly. I found out why later. 

Turns out that while they were showing themselves to be moving out quickly, they were also burying their drugs and paraphernalia. We go in there after they’re out and get started on the project. One of the major steps to dealing with a meth contaminated home is to “clean” the HVAC system. As we’re going after the ducts, we find needles, syringes, spoons, and other stuff. Turns out they had some black tar heroine stuff in there. I’m too naive to even know what that is, but someone else identified it for me. 

Imagine the joy of having to clean out heat registers, only to be greeted by needles that were shoved in there. Yeah - that’s what I do.