Chemical waste from cooking drugs, carelessly discarded by Canberra’s own Walter White, led the authorities to Stanley Hou’s drug lab.
The chemicals were picked up by water testers, who triggered a six-month search for the source of the contamination that uncovered a commercial grade clandestine drug lab capable of producing $10-20 million of MDMA.
Busted: Stanley Hou, left, eventually pleaded guilty. Photo: Jamila Toderas
The discovery of the chemical traces ultimately cost Hou his freedom, his family home, and two investment properties.
The former financial planner will sit in a jail cell while the three properties – seized from the drug cook through the ACT’s confiscation of criminal assets regime – go under the hammer in the coming …
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