ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — You can find it under your sink or in your junk drawer: Ingredients to cook meth and they all fit in a backpack.
Mobile meth labs are showing up in St. Johns County because the drug is getting easier to make and cheaper to score.
"I can make a meth lab for $30 and get $500-$1,000 off one bottle," said Detective Shawn Ferris of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
Action News sat down exclusively with Ferris. He's undercover, so we couldn't show his face.
And we're not revealing the process for making meth, but Ferris did want to show us how just about anything can be used to cook up this dangerous drug.
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"This is a Gatorade bottle and it's a meth lab," Ferris said. "They'll take this tube and run it over into that liquid and let it bubble."
It's all done without the traditional bulky equipment you may see on TV shows.
Since 2011, St. Johns County deputies have shut down 94 labs like these.
"That may be a conservative number," Ferris said. "That is the problem it is so mobile, I can put it in a backpack and get on a bicycle."
It's a drug epidemic Ferris is feverishly working to stop in a time where a lab can be almost anywhere and in almost anything.
"We just stay on it, it's the only thing we can do," he said.
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