Local News in Brief : La Habra : Police Search 2 Homes in Quest for Drug Labs

Police searched two residences Friday for information that might lead them to methamphetamine laboratories, such as the one discovered in Chino Hills last week.

However, it was not immediately known if anything collected was useful to police. No arrests were made, La Habra Police Lt. Howard Berry said.

“We don’t know if we’ll get any arrests out of this, or if the case will take us any further or if we’ve reached a dead end or not,” Berry said. “It may result in primarily only paper work to tie more people into a conspiracy case.”

On Monday, police seized chemicals at storage facilities in Fullerton and La Habra that would have been sufficient to make $4.8 million worth of methamphetamines. Those seizures resulted from an investigation after a July 21 raid at a methamphetamine lab in the garage of a Chino Hills home.

Three Fullerton residents were arrested in the Chino Hills raid. They face charges of conspiracy and the manufacturing and selling of methamphetamines.

The garage and storage facility raids led police to the La Habra residences searched Friday, Berry said. About 7 a.m., an Orange County Sheriff’s Department special weapons team helped serve a search warrant on a house in the 700 block of South Ridgehaven Drive, while a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department team assisted on a search in the 2600 block of Candlewood Drive.

Once inside, investigators went in to search the residences. The investigations are being conducted jointly by La Habra and Fullerton police, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.