Blast at US Government facility uncovers suspected methamphetamine lab

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NIST director Willie E. May told the US Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology that the security officer involved in the case had been on the Institute’s staff for 13 years and recently served a brief term as acting police chief of NIST’s Gaithersburg campus.

NIST, a branch of the Commerce Department, is involved in high-level scientific research and its scientists there have won several Nobel Prizes.

Republican congressman Lamar Smith said: “Last week, news broke that an explosion at a federal research facility was caused by a secret meth lab. Now we learn that these weren’t the actions of some low-ranking employee, but the former acting chief of police in charge of NIST security.