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Today the Post has more details on Wednesday night’s raid on an suspected meth lab in Adams Morgan:

Authorities charged Hugh L. Elsbree with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and “methylene dioxymethamphetamine, that is, Ecstasy,” court papers say. Police served a search warrant Wednesday night at his fourth-floor apartment at the Park East building in the 1800 block of Summit Place, where police said they found chemicals of an “inactive Methamphetamine lab,” including 304 grams of suspected meth and seven grams of cocaine, the documents say. It’s unclear from the documents whether the substance Elsbree is charged with possessing is the same that police believe was being manufactured.

Elsbree was taken into custody in the hallway outside the apartment. Police found his fiancee and 6-week-old daughter inside, the documents say. All three were evaluated by D.C. fire department medics and were believed to be safe from the chemicals, the papers say.

Class act, huh?

Police also found $30,000 in meth in his freezer, and a number of chemicals used to make it. They said that it didn’t seem that he was actively making it at the time of his arrest. Elsbree isn’t what we would classify as much of a smart criminal, either—just two weeks ago he was arrested after a fight in the neighborhood with 14 grams of rock cocaine on his person.