Man identified a day after his death near meth caused a Broward hotel evacuation
A man who died Saturday in a Plantation hotel room was from Georgia and was set up for cooking methamphetamine, police said, but he wasn’t running a “Breaking Bad” meth lab out of the LaQuinta Inn.
A Plantation police spokesman Sunday night identified the man as 35-year-old Joshua Teems, and a preliminary investigation deemed his death from an overdose. But, the spokesman said, the meth creation setup in his hotel room was for an “individual cooking for personal use.”
Still, finding elements of meth cooking caused the Saturday afternoon precautionary evacuation of the LaQuinta at 8100 Peters Rd. while Plantation Fire Rescue and Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue hazmat units checked the room and the hotel.
This story was originally published April 25, 2022 at 8:14 AM.
