After a grappling session at jiujitsu class our instructor tells us about some of the law enforcement guys who come to him for training. He used to be a cop as well.. But they talk to him after class about some of the shit they see day to day. Anyways, he was saying what a cop was telling him just the other day about something recent. A few sewage maintenance workers were inspecting the pipeline in an unincorporated community not far from us. They notice a strange pipe crudely connected to the main line, its not on the blueprints, so they follow it to a nearby place of residence. The authorities are soon notified and a search warrant was issued. Inside the garage, where the pipe leads, there was a big, conical metal vat, several feet tall and open at the top, a few feet wide. Next to it was a large metal mixing spatula or something. The shelves, top to bottom, were full of gallons of muriatic acid and some other chemical I don't recall, lye maybe? Suspicious indeed.. Two people lived there, both of Salvadorian dissent, one here illegally from El Salvador. The other had a total of $70,000 in several bank accounts, plus several thousand at the home.. Records show he hasn't had a job in ten years. They find nothing else other than the cash, metal structure, and the gallons of muriatic acid. The illegal was deported and the other guy is still being questioned.
