Clan Lab FAQs
- What does a clan lab look like?
- What are some of the signs or indications of a clan lab?
- What types of drugs are made in clan labs?
- What types of laboratory equipment would you see at a clan lab?
- What type of chemicals are found at a clan lab?
- What should you do if you suspect a clan lab in your neighborhood?
What does a clandestine laboratory look like?
A clan lab can be very elaborate or simple. The location of the lab could be clean, well organized or dirty, messy and disorganized. Clan labs have been found in every neighborhood on Oahu. Rich and poor residential neighborhoods, in industrial areas, hotel rooms, condominium, town houses, open fields, abandoned structures, buses and other vehicles.
What are some of the signs or indications of a clan lab?
- Extra ordinary security precautions being taken by the people to protect their privacy, such as security cameras, added locks, bars over windows, etc.
- Chemical containers, even more so when the labels are obliterated.
- Unusual foot traffic, containers moved in and out.
- Persons who come outside only to smoke and/or eat and drink.
- Unusual odors coming from a structure or location, such as the odor of ether or acetone (odor of fingernail polish remover).
- Dead foliage in run off areas.
- The discarding of numerous match books with only the striker pads missing.
- The discarding numerous empty containers or blister packs of over-the-counter cold medicines.
What types of drugs are made in a clan lab?
The most common type of illicit drug manufactured in a clandestine drug lab is Methamphetamine. Other types of drugs that have been found in clandestine drug laboratories across the United States:
- Amphetamine - Speed
- Methamphetamine - Ice, Batu, Crystal Meth
- GHB - Gamma-hydroxy butyrate, Date Rape Drug, Salty Water
- LSD - D-lysergic acid Diethylamide, Acid
- MDMA - 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, Ecstasy, XTC, Hug Drug, Adam
What type of laboratory equipment would you see at a clan lab?
A Clan Lab may have the latest in professional laboratory chemical equipment and glassware. Usually they consist of an assortment of normal household cooking equipment like, Mason canning jars, 1 or 2 liter soft drink bottles, any heat resistant glass cookware, coffee decanters, coffee filters, solvent cans, plastic or rubber hoses, electric blenders and kitchen baking funnels.
What type of chemicals are found at a clan lab?
You might see all or only some of these normal household chemicals that are used to manufacture illicit drugs such as Muriatic Acid, Caustic Soda, Red Devil Lye, Rock or table salt, camping fuel, paint thinners, Toluene, automobile or diesel starting fluid, denatured or rubbing alcohol, Iodine tincture or crystals, numerous (more than a normal household would use normally) pseudoephedrine, Sudafed or cold tablets that contain the chemical ephedrine.