Authorities investigating a 26-year-old Buena Park resident found a “clandestine drug lab” chock-full of suspected fentanyl drugs and different medication, police introduced.
First responders and a hazardous-materials workforce collect outdoors a drug lab in Fountain Valley.
(Buena Park Police Division)
The Buena Park Police Division’s Group Influence Group was investigating a suspected drug manufacturing and gross sales operation Wednesday after they came across the lab within the 10600 block of Ellis Road in Fountain Valley. The lab was inside a warehouse.
Whereas they knew there is likely to be one thing on the location, the scale of the operation stunned police.
“I don’t assume they realized it was going to be this massive,” stated Sgt. Jon Shaddow of the Buena Park Police Division.
Shaddow stated it was the most important drug lab takedown in latest historical past for the division.
The Fountain Valley location turned out to be a clandestine drug lab containing roughly 300,000 suspected fentanyl drugs, different medication, and equipment used for drug manufacturing. T
(Buena Park Police Division)
The lab contained about 300,000 drugs suspected to be fentanyl, the division stated. Different medication and machines used to make medication had been additionally discovered.
Photographs launched by the Police Division confirmed Ziploc luggage filled with orange drugs, in addition to different luggage stuffed with turquoise and white drugs.
The division known as within the Orange County Environmental Well being Hazardous Supplies Group to assist them cope with the lethal medication.
Police arrested the 26-year-old, although they didn’t launch his identify, citing the continued investigation.
