{"id":738007,"date":"2026-04-19T03:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/738007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:54:26","slug":"500-pounds-of-liquid-meth-worth-3m-found-after-fort-worth-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/738007\/","title":{"rendered":"500 pounds of liquid meth worth $3M found after Fort Worth crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were found dead this week after a minivan carrying nearly 500 pounds of liquid meth \u2014 which authorities said had a street value of up to $3 million \u2014 crashed in a Texas neighborhood, prompting a federal drug probe and a hazmat response.<\/p>\n<p>Cops and firefighters responded to the crash on Delga Street in Fort Wayne around 11:30 am Thursday and found the vehicle had slammed into a parked car before rolling into a nearby fence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fort-worth-liquid-meth-police-two-dead-van-crash\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&amp;linkId=930206364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS News reported.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle allegedly contained 10 buckets of the addictive drug, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.76171875;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39128215\" width=\"449\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1940-delga-street-upon-arrival-125911079.jpg\" alt=\"Two men were found dead this week after a minivan illegally carrying nearly 500 pounds of liquid meth -- which authorities said had a street value of up to $3 million -- crashed in a Texas neighborhood, prompting a federal drug probe and a hazmat response.\" class=\"wp-image-39128215\"  \/>Two men were found dead this week after a minivan illegally carrying nearly 500 pounds of liquid meth crashed in a Texas neighborhood. facebook\/InsideFWPD<\/p>\n<p>The man in the passenger seat was already dead. <\/p>\n<p>First responders tried to save the driver with first aid, but he didn\u2019t survive. <\/p>\n<p>Neither have been publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>A Fort Worth firefighter exposed to the liquid methamphetamine was in good condition as of Friday, after getting treated at a hospital and is expected to soon be released, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/liquid-meth-found-deadly-fort-worth-crash\/4011798\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBC-5 DFW reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver might have lost consciousness from exposure to toxic meth vapors before crashing, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the van was registered in Dallas and may have been part of a mobile meth lab operating between Dallas and Fort Worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.77734375;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39128216\" width=\"459\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1940-delga-street-upon-arrival-125911066.jpg\" alt=\"Ten white buckets containing liquid methamphetamine sit on the pavement, surrounded by other items removed from a car.\" class=\"wp-image-39128216\"  \/>Ten white buckets containing liquid methamphetamine sit on the pavement, surrounded by other items removed from a car. facebook\/InsideFWPD<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have hundreds of pounds of this liquid meth on the roadway. It\u2019s making it unsafe. What if this vehicle would have crashed and rolled over? You know, there\u2019s a lot of what ifs on this,\u201d said Fort Worth police spokesman Buddy Calzada.<\/p>\n<p>The crash narrowly avoided causing additional damage or injuries, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucky that this vehicle didn\u2019t, you know, sideswipe [a] truck, and then end up into a house I mean what would have happened then?\u201d said Calzada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were found dead this week after a minivan carrying nearly 500 pounds of liquid meth \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":738008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,5303,7371,7372,39986,7207,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-738007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-car-crashes","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-meth","tag-police","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116429355427954418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}