{"id":375362,"date":"2026-06-26T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375362\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:27:08","slug":"massive-methamphetamine-bust-in-palmdale-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375362\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive methamphetamine bust in Palmdale \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 800 pounds of methamphetamine was discovered in the city of Palmdale while authorities were investigating a possible illegal dumping incident, officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Code enforcement officers, who initially responded to a vacant lot, made the &#8220;extraordinary discovery,&#8221; which prompted a joint investigation with other law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, LA County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the LA Police Department, according to the city. <\/p>\n<p>The LA County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is now leading the criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they also located materials and photos that showed different stages of narcotics production. <\/p>\n<p>City officials did not say exactly when and where in Palmdale the drugs were seized. <\/p>\n<p>Code enforcement officers in the city are tasked with identifying and addressing public safety and property violations across Palmdale. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 800 pounds of methamphetamine was discovered in the city of Palmdale while authorities were investigating a possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,15551],"class_list":["post-375362","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-palmdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375362","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=375362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}