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05-08-2006, 06:29 PM
LARGE FENTANYL / MDA / TMA LABORATORY IN AZUZA, CALIFORNIA
- POSSIBLY THE “OC-80” TABLET SOURCE -
The DEA Southwest Laboratory (Vista, California) recently received multiple exhibits from a very large-scale clandestine laboratory, including various tablets (including apparent OC-80 logo Oxycontin® tablets), a variety of chemicals, and drug manufacturing recipes. The laboratory (which included a tablet press) was located in Azuza (a suburb of Los Angeles), and was seized by personnel from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and Crime Laboratory (see Photos 11 and 12). The initial appraisal of this site suggested that MDMA was being manufactured; however, subsequent laboratory analyses and a review of the recipes (acquired from the Internet) confirmed that it was actually producing fentanyl and 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA).
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo11.jpg
Photo 11http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo12.jpg
Photo 12The fentanyl appeared to be synthesized using the Siegfried route, and was found in both tablet and powder forms. One tablet exhibit contained 201 round, green tablets bearing the “OC-80” logo (total net mass 27.5 grams). These appeared to be distinctly undersized mimics of legitimate Oxycontin® tablets (which contain 80 milligrams of oxycodone; see Photos 13 and 14); however, analysis by GC, GC/MS, and IR indicated that these tablets actually contained 1.5 mg of fentanyl hydrochloride. Tablets like these have been seized throughout the country, and it appears that this lab was a source or possibly the source (could not be confirmed, because the tablet press, punches, and dies were not submitted). There were many thousands of these tablets at the laboratory.
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo13.jpg
Photo 13http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo14.jpg
Photo 14
- POSSIBLY THE “OC-80” TABLET SOURCE -
The DEA Southwest Laboratory (Vista, California) recently received multiple exhibits from a very large-scale clandestine laboratory, including various tablets (including apparent OC-80 logo Oxycontin® tablets), a variety of chemicals, and drug manufacturing recipes. The laboratory (which included a tablet press) was located in Azuza (a suburb of Los Angeles), and was seized by personnel from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and Crime Laboratory (see Photos 11 and 12). The initial appraisal of this site suggested that MDMA was being manufactured; however, subsequent laboratory analyses and a review of the recipes (acquired from the Internet) confirmed that it was actually producing fentanyl and 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA).
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo11.jpg
Photo 11http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo12.jpg
Photo 12The fentanyl appeared to be synthesized using the Siegfried route, and was found in both tablet and powder forms. One tablet exhibit contained 201 round, green tablets bearing the “OC-80” logo (total net mass 27.5 grams). These appeared to be distinctly undersized mimics of legitimate Oxycontin® tablets (which contain 80 milligrams of oxycodone; see Photos 13 and 14); however, analysis by GC, GC/MS, and IR indicated that these tablets actually contained 1.5 mg of fentanyl hydrochloride. Tablets like these have been seized throughout the country, and it appears that this lab was a source or possibly the source (could not be confirmed, because the tablet press, punches, and dies were not submitted). There were many thousands of these tablets at the laboratory.
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo13.jpg
Photo 13http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0406/photo14.jpg
Photo 14