How To Spot A Clandestine Lab Site

  • Windows blackened out or curtains always drawn.
  • Unfriendly tenants appear secretive about their activities. Tenants display paranoid or odd behaviour; watch cars suspiciously when passing by their residence.
  • Coming outside to smoke cigarettes.
  • Frequent visitors, often driving expensive vehicles.
  • Frequent late night activity.
  • Unemployed tenants, yet they drive expensive cars, seem to have plenty of money and pay their bills with cash.
  • Premises have been outfitted with expensive security.
  • Chemical odor coming from the house, apartment, garage or detached building.
  • Garbage frequently has numerous bottles and containers: Acetone, Toluene, Muriatic Acid, Red Phosphorus, Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, veterinarian products, methanol, Rubbing Alcohol, sodium hydroxide, Ether, paint thinner, ammonia, etc.
  • Tenants setting out their garbage in another neighbour's collection area.
  • Metal drums and boxes with labels removed or spray-painted over.