The World : Peru Drug Lab Destroyed

Peruvian drug agents destroyed a modern jungle laboratory and captured three tons of cocaine paste, the equivalent of 2,200 pounds of refined cocaine, authorities said. Police described the raid as one of the most successful in a series carried out by U.S.-trained officers. The laboratory was situated in a tropical area 290 miles northeast of Lima, in the upper Huallaga Valley. Meanwhile, two pilots being held in Mexico City, Californians Samuel Garrison and William Granewich, were accused by Mexican authorities of trying to fly a chartered executive jet with several million dollars worth of cocaine from Colombia to the United States. The two apparently made an unplanned landing near the southern tip of Baja California.