How many shabu labs are in the Philippines?
On Tue morning, May 31, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents and cops conducted a raid on a house in Villa Dolores in Barangay Santo Domingo, Angeles City.
The house turned out to be a shabu laboratory. Agents found 45 gallons of liquid methamphetamine or liquid shabu, which they assessed as worth PHP1.1 billion.
The house was said to have been rented two month ago by a Chinese national identified only as “Chang.” Aside from him, police were also looking for five suspects, including three Taiwanese. Nobody was home when the raid was conducted.
“The house was sealed. However, the stench of the chemicals had drawn the attention of neighbors. The lawmen also found equipment known to be used in making shabu. This was the second shabu laboratory found in Angeles City this year,” reports Tonette Orejas in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report recalled: “Last Mar 16, PDEA agents seized equipment that can manufacture 10 to 15 kilograms of shabu daily from a house on Clover Street in Timog Subdivision, Angeles City. They recovered 99 sacks of suspected sodium hydroxide, 19 sacks of unknown substance, 15 pails of suspected ammonia, red phosphorus, ethanol, cupric sulfate, iodine, ethanol, and assorted laboratory equipment.”
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