When methamphetamine cooks set up a lab in the middle of downtown Morris, Minn., in an empty building where the town's largest grocery store used to be, it was a wake-up call to the town of 5,200 people.
The lab was shut down shortly after it opened, but the fact that people would be brazen enough to take over an abandoned building in the heart of town to make drugs came as a shock to the community, says Mayor Carol Wilcox.
"It had been hidden and I think some people were naïve," Wilcox said of the discovery four years ago. "Until people got desperate and started doing desperate things."
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