He said the clandestine lab to convert liquid methamphetamine smuggled in from Mexico into powdered or crystallized meth that could be sold on the street was located someplace in Snellville but he’s not making public the exact location because of the ongoing investigation. Murphy said the timing of the case underscores the importance of reducing the amount of methamphetamine on the street but also of reducing the demand for it and other drugs. The two individuals from the Mexican cartel had set up shop.” “The laboratory was in a residential neighborhood.

“That’s enough for hundreds of thousands of doses?” Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne asked Murphy. “We conducted a search warrant there and found an active methamphetamine lab with over 2,000 pounds of meth in process, liquid meth in a conversion lab,” Murphy said. Murphy said agents then hit the house they believed it had come from. “The meth was all colored, different colors and we had not seen that before,” DEA special agent in charge Robert Murphy said. Federal authorities say they have busted a large meth lab in Gwinnett County that has ties to a Mexican drug cartel.Ī Drug Enforcement Administration agent says a truck stopped in Banks County yielded over 100 pounds of multicolored methamphetamine.

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