Four bedroom house, featuring meth lab, goes on sale for $1.5 million | Weird News

A real-life Breaking Bad house has gone on the market in California. 

Situated in a leafy suburb of sunny San Jose, the home boasts more than 2,700 square feet of living space, a wide garden with orange and apple trees, and an easy commute to nearby Silicon Valley – a major operational base for such tech giants as Apple, Facebook and Google. 

All this alongside a swimming pool, luxury spa, solar panels, state-of-the-art air conditioning and a patio perfect for hosting summer barbecues. 

At just $1.5 million, the property’s a steal – provided you don’t mind the drug lab and a faint touch of methamphetamine contamination about the place. 

As property website Redfin put it on their listing: ‘Great opportunity to own a large home on a large 6,000sqft lot. Home has inactive meth lab and meth contamination. 

‘Home has not been cleared of contamination and will be transferred to the new buyer in its current state.’

The residence formerly belonged to Peter Karasev, who was reportedly arrested in March on suspicion of damaging a number of the neighbourhood’s electricity transformers.

As part of the arrest, police conducted a search of Karasev’s house. 

In addition to the meth lab, they also found a small arsenal of weapons including guns and multiple homemade explosive devices. 

Karasev is reported to have lived at the property with his wife and three children. 

Since his initial arrest he’s been hit with a raft of different criminal charges, from possession of a destructive device through to child endangerment. 

But at least Karasev’s homespun drug manufacturing den was discovered before it could wreak further harm on the community. 

Back in 2015, a drug dealer in Maryland had the bright idea of setting up a narcotics factory in the last place any investigating authority might have thought to look.

His operation was only discovered after his lab exploded in the basement of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a government research facility. 

Police launched an inquiry after discovering at the site of the explosion traces of methamphetamine precursor chemicals, as well as a convenient ‘how to’ guide on manufacturing the illicit substance.

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