Hermit discovered living at Los Alamos

Oct 29, 2004

Hermit discovered living at Los Alamos

Adam Rankin illustrates how tight LANL security is by writing about a hermit who's lived on Los Alamos property for years, undetected:

Looking for a place to grow marijuana and live, rent-free, in a cave with all the creature comforts of home? Why not a canyon, tucked away within the 40 square miles of the nation's top-secret nuclear weapons research facility in Los Alamos?
That's where Roy Michael Moore, 56, was recently discovered living in a cave equipped with a glass front door, a wood stove, a bed, electricity-generating solar panels with batteries to store the power, and lights.

"From the campsite that I saw, he had been there quite a long time," said Los Alamos deputy fire chief Doug Tucker. "He had all the comforts of home... I was really impressed with his ability to set up a camp."

Tucker said he had heard Moore might have been living undetected in the cave in Los Alamos Canyon for as long as four years but couldn't confirm that.

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In fact, Moore's cave in Los Alamos Canyon is just on the edge of LANL property near Technical Area 2, about half a mile east of where Diamond Drive crosses the canyon over Omega Bridge.

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