The Standard staff arrived at work this morning to find the building behind ours at the southwest corner of Queen and Bathurst evacuated and cordoned off as police investigated a suspected methamphetamine lab.

Police had already taken a man and a woman into custody last night after receiving complaints of a “domestic incident” on the fifth floor of the live-and-work building at 165 Bathurst St. (the building directly behind the old Big Bop and soon-to-be CB2).

Believing they had spotted signs of a drug lab, police returned to the couple’s apartment this morning with a warrant. As Hazmat-clad investigators ventured in and out of the building, one Detective Desrochers told the Standard that the lab appeared to be only “small-scale,” adding it might’ve also been producing GHB (not to be confused with playing GBH — we’re always doing that). The inside lanes of Bathurst were closed to traffic and given over to a canopied mobile forensics lab for much of the day.

Update 1: “Domestic incident” = loud sex.

Update 2: Detectives have upgraded the drug lab’s scale to “medium-sized.” For reference, a sophisticated, quasi-industrial “super-lab” is capable of producing 20 kgs of methamphetamine per batch.

Irony Alert: The storefront at the ground floor of 165 Bathurst St. is Express Detox (Ion Spa and Cleanse). The building’s tenants are likely hoping the premises’ clean-up gets equally swift treatment.