BOSTON, Mass.—A mathematics professor is living the life of Walter White from the popular AMC series “Breaking Bad,” after police discovered she was running a methamphetamine lab from her Boston-area home alongside her 29-year-old son.
Irina Kristy, 74, who has taught math for more than 20-years at two Boston universities, is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 21 on charges of “distribution of meth, conspiracy to violate the drug law and drug violation in a school zone,” according to the Boston Globe.
The lab/residence is roughly 500 feet from the town’s City Hall and elementary school.
Kristy’s son, Grigory Genkin pleaded guilty to the same charges after police raided his mother’s Somerville, Massachusetts home, during a drug bust on November 7. and found five bottles of noxious chemicals cooking on the second floor of the home.
Police said the math lab found in Kristy’s home used the `shake and bake’ or `one-pot’ method, where the volatile chemicals are mixed into a single container, usually a soda bottle.
It is unclear how Kristy got involved in the business of manufacturing meth ---which can explode and burn violently if not handled properly. Prosecutors expect more details to emerge during her first court appearance later this month.
Kristy, who declined to comment to the Globe, teaches full-time at Boston University. She was put on administrative leave at Suffolk University, where she is an adjunct professor, last week.
The real-life case echoes the plot line of AMC’s Breaking Bad, in which Bryan Cranston’s character Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher and father learns he has inoperable lung cancer and begins cooking crystal meth with a former student in an effort to secure his family’s financial future.
However, that is where the similarities end because unlike her fictional counterpart, who remains a free man, Kristy is looking at some serious jail time.
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