Buffalo vicinity: Active underground meth lab discovered near Amherst Walmart

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Active underground meth lab discovered near Amherst Walmart

By Harold McNeil | News Staff Reporter, Maki Becker | News Staff Reporter | Google+
on August 8, 2016 - 3:05 PM, updated August 8, 2016 at 9:36 PM
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An active underground meth lab was uncovered Monday in a storm sewer in the parking lot of the Walmart on Sheridan Drive and Bailey Avenue, Amherst police said.

Firefighters from both Amherst and Buffalo companies and specially trained state police in hazmat suits were lowered down into the storm sewer Monday afternoon to investigate and clean up the small but potentially toxic lab.
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Amherst Detective Capt. Scott Chamberlin said police discovered the underground lab while on routine patrol late Monday morning in the vicinity of the parking lot.
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While the term “meth lab” evokes images of a laboratory with bubbling beakers and tubes, the set-ups are usually crude and involve household materials – like cold medicine, lithium batteries, drain cleaner and salt – mixed in containers as common as a two-liter soda bottle. ... In 2012, there was a spike in the number of such labs – nicknamed “one-pot labs” or “shake-and-bake labs.”

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