{"id":296084,"date":"2026-05-02T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:14:10","slug":"two-suspects-arrested-after-illegal-synthetic-drug-lab-found-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296084\/","title":{"rendered":"Two suspects arrested after illegal synthetic drug lab found \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two suspects were arrested Friday after police uncovered a large and complex illegal synthetic drug manufacturing lab in Santa Fe Springs, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Whittier police officers responded at about 2:10 p.m. to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon involving a vehicle and a hit-and-run in the 9600 block of Santa Fe Springs Road. Fire personnel were already at the scene investigating a suspicious odor.<\/p>\n<p>Officers soon located the suspect vehicle in the parking lot of Presbyterian Inter-Community Hospital in Whittier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities took one suspect into custody after an extensive search of the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation led officers to an industrial building at 9620 Santa Fe Springs Road, where they found what they described as a large and complex illegal chemical drug manufacturing lab.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers arrested a second suspect.<\/p>\n<p>A specialized task force was called in to identify the chemicals and dismantle the lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the dismantling operation remained ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects were arrested Friday after police uncovered a large and complex illegal synthetic drug manufacturing lab in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,8636],"class_list":["post-296084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-whittier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}