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Related: About this forumSan Jose house listed for $1.5 million comes with meth lab. Buyer gets the cleanup.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/27/san-jose-house-listed-for-1-5-million-comes-with-meth-lab-buyer-gets-the-clean-up/Vista Park home was previously used by suspect in bombings of PG&E transformers
Not blocked, though Mercury News articles usually are. Use archive.md if so.
https://archive.md/2U3Ue
Its being sold as-is and the purchaser will get it sight unseen. At least on the inside. No access to the house will be provided before the Santa Clara County Health department gives its approval, the property listing notes.
The San Jose home, about a block north of Gunderson High School, was raided in March of this year as part of an explosives investigation targeting 36-year-old Peter Karasev, who investigators said was using it as a base to stockpile bomb-making chemicals and methamphetamines.
Over the course of four days, San Jose police and explosive specialists with the FBI and National Guard uncovered homemade liquid explosive, multiple energetic homemade destructive devices and multiple suspected destructive devices, unspecified bomb-making materials, and pipe bombs, the Mercury News previously reported
Here's the Google street view photo and then the zillow photo. (Merc news used the Google one! )
Zillow:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/668-Potomac-Ct-San-Jose-CA-95136/19708245_zpid/
AllaN01Bear
(23,001 posts)brush
(57,365 posts)as is? And is a fixer-upper? That price is gonna have drop quite a bit before they even get a nibble.
Fiendish Thingy
(18,324 posts)This is in Silicon Valley, where even secretaries at tech companies get stock options
brush
(57,365 posts)has to be higher, but they're all ugly as sin and crowded together...no acreage for all that dough...oh well. It's Silicon Valley.
MenloParque
(534 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 28, 2023, 04:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Meth is a big problem with Silicon Valley Techies. Lots of software engineers at my Fortune 100 company are hooked on stimulants including meth. Thankfully we have a really good inpatient program in Big Sur free to all employees to utilize.
usonian
(13,581 posts)Welcome to DU. I had some pretty psychopathic bosses in the valley, none on drugs that I know of.
Just posting a possible poster boy for drugs.
Muskovite.
https://democraticunderground.com/100218407563
sakabatou
(42,967 posts)usonian
(13,581 posts)It probably was in good shape before he made it a shop for explosives and drugs.
Just my guess.
Some of these labs burn up and go boom. Lucky for the neighbors that this one didnt.