BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The Kern County Sheriff’s Office says a large residential methamphetamine conversion lab has been dismantled.

On October 30th, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the KC-HIDTA Task Force executed a search warrant at a home on Rian Noelle Court, near Meadows Field. They found and seized about 954 pounds of methamphetamine and more than 2,700 pounds of the drug in liquid form.

Sheriff Donny Youngblood with the Kern County Sheiffs Office says, “I would say it’s probably the biggest. In my younger career I worked narcotics — and if you had a five or ten-pound methamphetamine case, you had a huge case. This one is over nine-thousand pounds. This is an enormous amount of narcotics that are killing our youth.”

Three suspects — Christian Castro, Kymberly Lopez-Garc

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