A street in Hamilton Ontario looked like something out of Hollywood drug-related crime show this afternoon
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Hamilton police blocked off a street and had to call in hazardous material specialists as they raided a home of a suspected clandestine drug lab.
They suspected the operation was producing performance image enhancing drugs (PIED’s). These are a range of drugs, often steroids, to promote muscle growth or reduce body fat.
Scott Mills, the operations coordinator of the OPP drug enforcement unit, said that other chemicals and apparatus could point to the manufacture of other types of drugs as well. “But I’m not a chemist, I don’t know what they’re making,” he said. “We’d need to have a chemist involved to tell us exactly.”
He said these types of labs making PIED’s are more common than thought, even for him as a drug officer with 27 years experience.
Police say a man and a woman at the house have been arrested, but no charges have been laid as yet.
Mills said, this search is part of a much larger investigation involving several municipalities.
(with files from CBC)
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