The Villages does not seem like a retirement community for the faint of heart. During a SWAT team raid this week, not only did cops successfully find the meth lab they were searching for, but they also found a golf cart chop shop . And this comes just a few days after a sinkhole opened up under another Villager’s home.
But back to the drug raid, which was the result of neighbors complaining, which is something that has to just happen all the time within a giant retirement community. The police wound up arresting five people on an array of narcotics charges, including:
*Sale of methamphetamine
*Possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell
*Keeping or maintaining a drug shop
*Possession of weapon/ammo by convicted felon
*Possession of methamphetamine
*Possession of heroin
*Possession of paraphernalia
*Possession of new legend drug without a prescription
Moving on to chop shop. Inside the home, police found everything several types of golf cart parts from windshields, to wheels, to seat cushions, to tires. And apparently this is an ongoing issue in the retirement community. Last month, cops arrested three people in connection with a golf cart theft ring.
Golf carts are a big form of transportation in the community of about 150,000 residents. However, I’m still trying to piece together where the meth market would come from.
That’s probably just the Florida coming through.
[Deadspin]
