Authorities investigating a 26-year-old Buena Park resident discovered a “clandestine drug lab” filled with suspected fentanyl pills and other drugs, police announced.
Emergency response teams and a hazmat team gather outside a drug lab in Fountain Valley.
(Buena Park Police Department)
The Buena Park Police Department's Community Impact Team was investigating a suspected drug manufacturing and sales operation Wednesday when they came across the lab in the 10600 block of Ellis Street in Fountain Valley. The lab was inside a warehouse.
Although they knew there might be something there, the size of the operation surprised police.
“I don't think they realized it was going to be this big,” said Sgt. Jon Shaddow of the Buena Park Police Department.
Shaddow said it was the largest drug lab raid in the department's recent history.
The Fountain Valley location turned out to be a clandestine drug lab containing approximately 300,000 suspected fentanyl pills, other drugs, and machinery used for drug manufacturing.
(Buena Park Police Department)
The lab contained about 300,000 pills suspected to be fentanyl, according to the department. Other drugs and machines used to manufacture them were also found.
Photos released by the Police Department showed Ziploc bags filled with orange pills, as well as other bags filled with turquoise and white pills.
The department called in Orange County's Environmental Health Hazardous Materials Team to help deal with the deadly drugs.
Police arrested the 26-year-old, though they did not release his name, citing the ongoing investigation.
