TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran police discovered a Mexican-run cocaine lab yesterday, the first ever found in the Central American country, in a sign Colombian-dominated production of the drug is moving north.
Police found the lab — a crude shack with a metal roof — in a mountainous area around 100 miles (175 km) north of the capital Tegucigalpa. An electricity generator, barrels of chemicals, filters, scales, and tools to process cocaine were all found at the site but no one was arrested.
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