>>RUSS: SUSPECT IS MORE THAN JUST A STREET DEALER. WELL, WE >>RUSS: TURN NOW >>COURTNEY: TO >>RUSS: A >>RUSS: MAJOR METH BUST, THE DEA FOUND ALMOST £900 OF >>RUSS: CRYSTAL >>COURTNEY: METH >>RUSS: READY TO BE DISTRIBUTED. >>COURTNEY: FOX’S DENISE DYLAN IS LIVE IN >>RUSS: NORCROSS AND >>COURTNEY: DENISE. THEY JUST FOUND THIS A
>>RUSS: LITTLE >>COURTNEY: MORE THAN 24 HOURS AGO. YEAH, >>REPORTER: THAT’S RIGHT, AND THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF METH. DEA AGENTS BELIEVE IT WAS INTENDED TO BE SOLD ALL OVER METRO ATLANTA AND UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST, AND IT WAS ALL FOUND IN A UNIT AT THE STORAGE FACILITY.
>>>>: CRYSTAL METH, WHICH IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO BUY. IT’S CHEAP THAT THE HIGH LASTS A LONG TIME. THIS IS ALMOST £900 OF CRYSTAL METH. IT’S ABOUT 1.6 MILLION WORTH OF METHAMPHETAMINE WHOLESALE. UM BUT WHEN IT’S GETTING BROKEN DOWN ON THE STREET, IT’S GONNA GO FOR A LOT
MORE THAN THAT. DEA AGENTS SAY THEY GOT SOME TIPS USED REALLY GOOD POLICE WORK TO PUT SOME CLUES TOGETHER, AND IT LED THEM TO THIS PUBLIC STORAGE ON JIMMY CARTER BOULEVARD IN NORRO. EVEN THE AGENTS WERE SURPRISED ON THE QUANTITY WHEN THEY WHEN THEY OPENED THE DOOR. THEY WERE
NUMBER ONE. THE SMELL WAS OVERWHELMING AND NUMBER TWO THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, JUST THEY WEREN’T ANTICIPATING THIS MUCH. THE DEA BELIEVES THE DRUGS ORIGINATED IN A SUPER LAB IN MEXICO AND SMUGGLED TO THE U ‘S IN LIQUID FORM. THEN AT A CONVERSION LAB THAT LOOKS A LOT
LIKE THIS ONE LIKELY IN A HOME IN ATLANTA, WAS CONVERTED TO CRYSTAL METH AND BROUGHT TO NORARO WHERE MOST OF IT WAS INSIDE TUPPERWARE CONTAINERS AND NEATLY STACKED INSIDE A STORAGE UNIT. ONE MAN, A MEXICAN NATIONAL WHO WAS SEEN AND GOING FROM THE STORAGE UNIT WAS ARRESTED. CARTEL JALISCO NEW
GENERATION. IT’S ONE OF TWO MAJOR CARTELS OPERATING IN THE ATLANTA AREA. AGENTS SAY CRYSTAL METH IS VERY PROFITABLE FOR THE CARTELS. AND WHILE NONE OF THIS WILL MAKE IT TO THE STREETS, THE BATTLE IS FAR FROM OVER. WE’RE FIGHTING A CARTEL. THAT’S BETTER RESOURCE THAN US BETTER CAPITALIZED. THEY’RE NOT
CONSTRAINED BY YOU KNOW THE LAW OR THE CONSTITUTION? THEY’RE ONLY THEIR ONLY PURPOSE IS TO MAKE PROFIT FROM SELLING POISON ON OUR STREETS. >>REPORTER: DEA AGENTS ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR THAT CONVERSION LAB IN ATLANTA. THEY BELIEVE THERE’S AT LEAST ONE OF THEM AND THEY SAY THEY HAVE NO DOUBT THEY WILL FIND IT
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