ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) – Two people were arrested and hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine were seized after a traffic stop turned into a bust of a home lab in Georgia, according to the Atlanta Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The DEA Atlanta’s office said the traffic stop happened Monday, which led law enforcement to a “large methamphetamine conversion lab at a house in a residential neighborhood in Cobb County.”
Officials said Anthony Revolorio was pulled over by Georgia State Patrol for driving while holding a cellphone.
Arrest warrants said 10 kilograms of meth were found in his car, which led to a home in the 1900 block of Pair Road and more than 500 kilograms of meth.
“When we went up, we got blown away by the smell, clearly. It was so overwhelming when they approached the house, they knew exactly what we were going to find,” said Robert Murphy, special agent in charge, DEA Atlanta Division.
Raul Ernesto was also arrested in connection to the drug bust, authorities said.
They said the suspects arrested are immigrants from Guatemala in the county illegally.
The chemicals found in the house are “highly volatile and may ignite or explode if mixed or stored improperly,” the DEA said in a news release, adding that the house is “within close proximity to nine elementary schools, seven middle schools and nine high schools.”
Murphy called the Atlanta area a base station for illegal drug manufacturing.
He said the feds are aware of several Mexican drug cartels doing business in the metro area, and they’re working to shut them down.
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