No person however was arrested during the raid conducted by the local police and operatives from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 3.
Senior Supt. Rodolfo Recomono Jr. said the raiding team discovered seven large hyrogenators and chromatograph machine inside the laboratory, leading him to the conclusion of it as the biggest shabu laboratory raided.
“Each hyrdogenator can manufacture 50 to 100 kilograms of shabu per day as per assessment of the crime laboratory chemists while the chromatograph machine is an equipment that determines the purity of shabu,” said Recomono in a phone interview. “Good thing we have discovered this laboratory before it can produce and distribute finish products to the market.”
Recomono said the laboratory, located in Barangay Lacquios is surrounded by 8 to 10- feet concrete fence, with hog farms beside it and a melting plant of plastics.
It was some five kilometers from the shabu laboratory also inside a piggery farm in Barangay San Ildefonso, Magalang town that was raided by joint PDEA and police operatives two weeks ago.
“My instruction to all police chiefs in the province is to be pro-active,” Recomono said. “And it pays.”
Supt. Samuel Sevilla, Arayat police chief, was conducting regular inspection of all industries specifically hog and poultry farms in the wake of the Magalang shabu laboratory raid when they chanced upon this one.
Sevilla said the compound is occupied by unidentifi ed persons who quickly fl ed after they noticed of the approaching policemen. “It was also abandoned.”
He said no one has yet come forward to claim ownership of the property.
Policemen and PDEA personnel are currently undertaking inventory of the equipment and seized precursors found inside the warehouse of the shabu laboratory.
