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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Cops bust shabu lab in Angeles City
By Dante M. Fabian
ANGELES CITY -- Teams from the Angeles City Police and the Central Luzon Police Regional Office (PRO) found various supplies and equipment believed used in the manufacture of shabu in an unattended house in Carmenville Subdivision on Monday.
Chief Superintendent Alejandro C. Lapinid, Central Luzon police director, said the discovery of the shabu laboratory inside the house along Palo Santo Street in Woodland Village, Carmenville Subdivision is so far the biggest catch in the campaign against illegal drugs in Central Luzon during his term.
Superintendent Daisy Babor, PRO 3 crime laboratory chief, said the liquids and apparatus found in the house are similar to those found in a previous raid on a shabu laboratory in Valenzuela, Bulacan.
The house is reportedly occupied by a Chinese tourist.
She added that the items found in the house are mostly components for apparatus used in the distillation and reduction of ephedrine into shabu.
Samplings of substances scraped off from strainer funnels, drying pans, and other handling equipment by Babor's team tested positive of methamphetamine hydrochloride during an on-the-spot examination inside the house.
Crime laboratory technicians and a Scene of the Crime Operations (Soco) team led by Chief Inspector Ronald Yusi immediately conducted an inventory of the materials found inside the house, which was enclosed by a 10-foot high concrete fence.
Operatives found the house filled with drums, hoses, hundreds of gallons of a liquid believed to be ephedrine--a chemical used in making shabu.
The house also yielded boxes of hair dye imported from China, laboratory apparatus and equipment including pressure gauges, thermo sensors, electric mixers, glass tubing and fittings, water circulators fitted with vacuum pumps and tanks for compressed air or gases.
Lapinid noted that the house is too crowded and most of the equipment were not set up for production, indicating that the owners used the house mainly for storage after moving the laboratory to other places.
He added that the operators of the shabu laboratory could still be looking for other places where they can set up the apparatus and undertake production of shabu.
The Angeles City Police Office Special Weapons and Tactics (Acpo-Swat) team, under Acpo intelligence and investigation section head Chief Inspector Lorenzo B. Detran, and Cutcut Barangay Chairman Robin Nenpomuceno entered the house in accordance with a search warrant issued by Judge Arnel Santos of the Regional Trial Court (RTC). (Sun.Star Pampanga/Sunnex)
(December 21, 2005 issue)
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