Underground Lab busted in Texas
by Anthony Roberts ~ source

Matthew Emilio Montano was arrested last week by a Texas Special Investigations Unit, who described him as a “key player” in a large underground steroid manufacturing operation. The lab (*and no, I don’t have an exact name, even though I called the officer in charge of the case) was labeling their product as if they’d been made at a legitimate facility in Canada. This is actually a pretty old trick – underground labs will claim that they’re based in Canada or Mexico, just in case their product falls into the hands of (inexperienced) law enforcement, they have a chance of throwing them off the fact that it’s actually being manufactured in America.

“It’s not a small-scale operation…They’re getting chemicals from Mexico and China. … You don’t really know what you’re getting. They’re making counterfeit labels to attach to bottles to make it appear these are manufactured in legitimate labs.These are backyard chemicals and they’re not made in a clean lab.”” said Lt. Phillip Cash of the Special Investigations Unit.

The SIU was assisted by the Houston Police Department’s HIDT squad (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas) along with federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents when they arrested Montano at his parents Woodlands, TX, residence. The arrest came after Montano delivered 56 vials of liquid steroids to an undercover agent.