Ohio Woman Unwittingly Buys Home Once Used As Meth Lab; Sues Former Owner While Fighting Foreclosure; Fears Connection To Kids' Chronic Illnesses

In Stow, Ohio, the Akron Beacon Journal reports:

• Her Stow home is frozen in time. The kids' clothes, their beds, the family photos, everything they own remains untouched, just as they left it almost a year ago.
  The exodus from her new home was swift. And it was not fueled by ghosts or lousy neighbors. Rather, it was the revelation of what was once inside her Meadowbrook Boulevard home and its potential relation to her children's chronic illnesses.

• Andrea Wagner has learned she is the owner of a former meth house, one of at least 143 tabulated by local health officials. The 26-year-old single mother of two is now in court fending off foreclosure efforts while at the same time fighting the man who sold her the home. Her lawsuit claims the former owner never revealed its methamphetamine production history.

For more, see Single mom is suing seller of meth house (Home was once drug lab; woman fears for kids' health, might be facing foreclosure).

For a related post on meth labs and the problems they cause in homes that once housed them, see The Invisible Legacy Left In Homes Used As Meth Labs.

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Go here and go here for other posts on home based meth labs.

Check the the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) National Clandestine Laboratory Register for (what the DEA admits to being) an incomplete list of possible locations of former neighborhood meth labs that have been reported to authorities. meth lab zeta