NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors on Wednesday announced they had dismantled a crystal Meth lab and seized a large drug supply in the Bronx.
Some of it had been converted into the crystalized version that users can smoke, according to officials.
The lab was located at 3204 Kingsbridge Avenue, in a vacant apartment across the street from an elementary school, and the first meth conversion lab that DEA has encountered in New York City, according to officials.
“This isn’t breaking bad, but it is a bad sign that methamphetamine is trying to make a home in New York City," DEA Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan said.
Upon entering Apt. 6A, agents and officers immediately smelled acetone and observed a makeshift methamphetamine laboratory in a non-furnished, vacant apartment.
Agents and officers found a large metal pot on the stove burner with a sifter containing crystal meth. In addition, 12 bricks (weighing approximately 20 pounds) of methamphetamine powder in reusable shopping bags were located under the sink. Law enforcement recovered clear plastic bags containing crystal meth (approximately 2 pounds), approximately 45 grams of heroin, and thousands of pills from a cabinet above the sink.
Inoel Acosta, 35, Luis Reyes, 26, and Angel Zepeda,. 49 were taken into custody in the raid, officials said.
Additionally, police seized approximately 22 pounds of methamphetamine, 45 grams of heroin, and 2,000 pills that appear to be Percocet and oxycodone that will be tested as possible counterfeits.