Taco Bell Employee Fired for Allegedly Cooking Meth in Store

Breaking Bad is over, yet its spirit lives on in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That’s because a now-former Taco Bell employee and an accomplice were recently arrested for conspiring to cook methamphetamines in the back of a local franchise.

Local police received a tip at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday morining, saying that suspicious activity was suspected outside of the Taco Bell restaurant. When they arrived, they found two men outside the franchise — one claiming he was an employee, while the other was not. After checking the restaurant at the manager’s request, police found the “remnants of a meth lab.”

31-year-old Christopher Matous and 56-year-old Kent Duby were arrested and charged with “conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of sodium hydroxide, and possession of petroleum distillates.”

Taco Bell released a full statement on the matter:

We understand that two people, one an employee, entered our franchisee’s restaurant illegally, allegedly possessing suspicious items. Both we and our franchisee find this completely unacceptable. Our franchisee has been cooperating with Cedar Rapids Police to investigate this isolated incident. Although the suspicious items found in the restaurant were not used in the kitchen, the employee has been terminated and our franchisee is considering pressing criminal charges. The restaurant will reopen after it has been sanitized inspected by the Health Department.

Check out the clip below, courtesy of CBS 2 Iowa:

[h/t Gawker, CBS 2 Iowa]
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