--- title: Police Find Suspected Meth Lab in Retirement Community description: Police found meth, heroin, and materials for a meth lab in 64-year-old Robert Short's apartment in a retirement home canonical: https://time.com/2882083/police-find-meth-lab-in-california-retirement-community/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-16T15:29:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:47.998Z og:title: Police Find Meth Lab in California Retirement Community og:description: Breaking Bad: The next generation og:url: https://time.com/2882083/police-find-meth-lab-in-california-retirement-community/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Find Meth Lab in California Retirement Community twitter:description: Breaking Bad: The next generation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Police Find Meth Lab in California Retirement Community by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 16, 2014 3:29 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 16, 2014 3:29 PM UTC It turns out a goody-goody high school science teacher isn’t the most unlikely suspect for leading a drug operation. Police suspect that a [64-year-old man was running a meth lab out of his Fresno, Calif. retirement community.](http://abc30.com/news/fresno-traffic-stop-leads-to-discovery-of-meth-lab-at-retirement-community/114986/) Robert Short was arrested Saturday night after police found four ounces of meth in his car following a routine traffic stop. When they went to his home in the California League-Fresno Village, a community for senior citizens, [they found half a pound of meth, heroin, and materials to make a meth lab](http://http://news.yahoo.com/meth-lab-found-california-retirement-community-124313378.html) including baggies and scales. The cost of the drugs was approximately $1,700. “Just shocking someone that age would do that, but actually a perfect place to do it, right?” [police Lt. Joe Gomez told a local ABC affiliate](http://abc30.com/news/fresno-traffic-stop-leads-to-discovery-of-meth-lab-at-retirement-community/114986/). “Retirement village, who would suspect it going on there?” Although Gomez should give the seniors some credit — after all, [data has shown they know how to have a good time.](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/emanuel-sex-and-the-single-senior.html) ([ABC](http://abc30.com/news/fresno-traffic-stop-leads-to-discovery-of-meth-lab-at-retirement-community/114986/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2882083/police-find-meth-lab-in-california-retirement-community/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2882083/police-find-meth-lab-in-california-retirement-community/"},"headline":"Police Find Meth Lab in California Retirement Community","datePublished":"2014-06-16T15:29:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:47.998Z","description":"Breaking Bad: The next generation","url":"https://time.com/2882083/police-find-meth-lab-in-california-retirement-community/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Drugs","Heroin","Meth"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2882083/police-find-meth-lab-in-california-retirement-community/","name":"Police Find Meth Lab in California Retirement Community"}}]}] ```