Police probe link between 2 ‘shabu’ labs

The police are looking into a possible link between the abandoned methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” laboratory found in a rundown warehouse in Parañaque City the other day and the drug laboratory discovered inside a house at the posh Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa City earlier this year.

Chief Superintendent Benito Estipona, head of the Southern Police District (SPD), noted that the two laboratories had striking similarities.

Estipona said both laboratories used the same process for manufacturing shabu. They also had the same equipment, he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a phone interview, although he did not elaborate.

Estipona added that the only difference was that the Parañaque laboratory found in Kilometer 19 on the East Service Road in Barangay (village) San Martin de Porres, could produce drugs on a much larger scale.

“The equipment used to make shabu [there] were described as industrial size,” he said, citing reports that the laboratory was capable of  producing about 100 kilos per week.