August 29, 2001 - 8:40pm - Unit #220 and unit #65 had just pulled up to the gas pumps at the QuikTrip gas station on Bowles Ave. at I-44 when 220 noticed a male and female in a black Thunderbird next to them. The engine was running, the windows were rolled up, and both occupants were unconscious. 220 and 65 suspected they were either drunk or on drugs so 65 called the St. Louis County Police.

Two officers arrived a few minutes later and 220 flagged them down and showed them the car. He told the officers that the two had been like that for over ten minutes. The officer had to bang on the window several times before he got their attention. The officers got the two out of the car and started asking them questions. The male suspect resisted one of the officers so he was put in handcuffs. The officer searched the front seats and found a bottle of whiskey. He then searched the back seat and found a large cooler. In the cooler he found a mobile Methamphetamine lab, along with the chemicals to make it and the finished product. The officer told 220 about this and that both suspects were, as he put it, "wasted". Upon hearing this, 220 and 65 moved further away to nearby parking spaces to get away from any fumes. The officers arrested the suspects and put up crime scene tape across half the lot. They called their watch commander, drug enforcement officers, and the fire department to the scene. The drug officers carefully removed the items in the car and started testing them to find out what they were. There was a strong chemical odor in the air that irritated 220's and 65's eyes while they did this. 220 and 65 remained at the scene and turned around the customers that wanted to try and use the pumps. The store clerk told one of the officers and 220 that the female suspect came into the store earlier and bought all of their matches. The match heads contain a chemical needed to make meth. Two hours later, the police's Clandestine Lab Response Unit trailer arrived on the scene. The trailer is utilized by drug enforcement officers to respond to a clandestine lab site with the tools and equipment needed to safely dismantle the lab. The officers took the items into the trailer. Soon after, 220 and 65 gave an officer their cards and told him they had to get going. He thanked them for what they had done and for helping with traffic.

Followup - Sep 6, 2001 - St. Louis County Police told 220 that after he and 65 left the scene that night the police found two live pipe bombs in the suspect's car. The suspect told officers that he planned on using the bombs if the police ever stopped him so he could destroy the evidence. The only thing that stopped him from using the bombs that night was the fact that one of his chemical tanks in the car had sprung a leak and he inhaled the fumes which caused him and the female suspect to be in an "altered" state when the police arrived.