Timothy Lipson & wife ran a drug lab out of their home with their 2 infants

**Tazzzz** · February 28th, 2009, 07:27 PM

Timothy Lipson, 33 & Angelica Cruz-Lipson, 34

Come on, that shit doesnt belong anywere near your home, esecially if you have 2 infants in your house.

A Casa Grande couple have been arrested for running a drug lab out of their home. Even more disturbing is that authorities found the couple's two small children living with them inside the home.

33 year-old Timothy Lipson and his wife, 34 year-old Angelica Cruz-Lipson, were booked into the Pima County Jail on charges of drug possession, drug manufacturing and child abuse.

Detectives with DPS, DEA and the Maricopa High Intensity Drug Trafficking Task Force uncovered a large marijuana growing operation, Ecstasy lab and several psilocybin mushroom plants.

An 18 month-old girl and a 2 month-old baby boy were also found living in the house. The children were turned over to CPS.

Police estimated the value of the drugs to be around $300,000, including the marijuana plants which yielded about two pounds of pot. Cleanup of the home is expected to cost over $5,000.

Detectives say the suspect lived in the home for about 10 years and they believe he had been operating that lab out of his residence for a majority of that time.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news..._grande_022809
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An infant and toddler were found living in the home with their parents who are suspected of operating the lab.

On February 26, 2009, at about 9:35 a.m., Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) Detectives along with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and members of the Maricopa County High Intensity Drug Traffic Area (HIDTA) Task Force served a search warrant on a residence at 17974 W. Havasupai in Casa Grande, Ariz.

A DPS SWAT team served the warrant by making entry on the residence. Detectives discovered a full hydroponic marijuana grow operation and seized 30 plants in various stages of growth. A fully functional MDMA (Ecstasy) lab was also located, dismantled and seized with MDMA chemicals. DPS Detectives found and seized 16 psilocybin mushroom plants which were being cultivated and grown in the same lab. Also seized were two vehicles and a shotgun.

DPS Detectives arrested two suspects, Timothy Lipson, 33, and his wife, Angelica Cruz-Lipson, 34. Both suspects, who are from Casa Grande, were booked into the Pinal County Jail on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, manufacturing a dangerous drug, possessing precursor chemicals to manufacture drugs, possession of and producing marijuana, and child abuse.

An 18-month-old girl and a 2-month-old boy belonging to the suspects were found living in the lab/house. The children were turned over to Child Protective Services (CPS).

The potential value of the drugs seized is estimated to be near $300,000. A fully grown hydroponic marijuana plant yields about two pounds of product which sells for about $4,500 a pound. The total weight of the seized mushroom plants was around two pounds.

A pound of psilocybin mushrooms is worth about $2,000. The value of the raw MDMA chemicals is undetermined at this time. Clean up of the home is estimated to cost over $5,000. The male suspect had lived in this home for about ten years.

It is believed he had been operating a drug lab out of the residence for some time.

http://blog.drivinglaws.org/2009/02/...n-casa-grande/
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Goodman said MDMA and methamphetamine are similar in chemical makeup but different in composition.

"These labs are dangerous simply because of the chemicals that are used to make the drugs," he said.

While both drugs are synthetically made, DiCesare said the main difference between the two is that ecstasy is more of a hallucinogen that is popular with the partying or club scene, while meth is a more addictive drug, like cocaine or heroin.

http://media.www.dailyillini.com/med...b-852391.shtml

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