A Jurupa Valley street was blocked Wednesday night, March 27, while a hazardous-materials team and police dealt with a methamphetamine lab discovered while a search warrant was being served by Fontana police, officials said.
Fontana police searched a property in the 4700 block of Bain Street on Wednesday and found the methamphetamine-conversion lab, sheriff’s Sgt. Wenndy Brito-Gonzalez said.
At 4:15 p.m., the Sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau — Narcotics Division was called in to assist with the investigation of the lab, while Bain Street was blocked between Galena and 48th streets.
The Riverside County Environmental Health Department and the Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department Hazmat team also responded to the scene.
Fontana police Officer Daniel Romero said the narcotics investigation started in Fontana and led police to the Jurupa Valley location, where investigators found a “large-scale meth lab. … Several hundred pounds of illegal narcotics were seized along with illegal firearms.”
No arrests had been made as of Thursday morning and the investigation was ongoing, Romero said.
Police asked that anyone with information on the case to contact them at 909-350-7740 or the Sheriff’s Department at 951-955-2400.
