Pala
Border Patrol agents arrested a 33-year-old man and confiscated a rental truck loaded with a partly assembled methamphetamine lab and enough raw materials to produce drugs with a value of $750,000, the Narcotics Task Force announced.
William Eirls, 33, of Etiwanda, a community near Ontario in San Bernardino County, was driving a U-Haul rental truck north on Pala Road near the Pala Indian Reservation Friday at 11 a.m. when he was stopped by Border Patrol officers, said Ronald D’Ulisse spokesman for the Narcotics Task Force.
Eirls was held on suspicion of possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, D’Ulisse said. Eirls was being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
D’Ulisse said the equipment found in the truck indicated that the lab was capable of producing 10 to 15 pounds of the drug at a time and said the substance could be sold for about $7,500 a pound. Ten pounds could have a wholesale value of as much as $75,000.
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