Meth Manufacturing Lab Found In Long Island Burglary Investigation: Police

RONKONKOMA, NY — A Levittown man who owns a lab in Ronkonkoma was busted for using it to manufacture methamphetamine after he reported a burglary there early Wednesday morning, Suffolk police said.

The lab's owner, Matthew Leshinsky, called to report that he heard glass break at Quantitative Laboratories on Pond Road at around 3:30 a.m., and when officers from the 5th Precinct and the department's K-9 Unit searched the premises they discovered "equipment and chemicals consistent with the manufacturing of methamphetamine," according to police.

Significant quantities of solid and liquid methamphetamine, ketamine, and cocaine were confiscated from the lab, along with about $40,000 in cash, police said.

Leshinsky's Linkedin profile says that he is the chief scientific officer at the lab, which opened for the quantitative analysis of cannabis in New York.

Leshinsky was arrested after a joint investigation by detectives from the 5th Precinct, Arson, and Narcotics squads, as well as state troopers and the Department of Environmental Conservation, according to police.

Leshinsky, 23, was charged with first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, five counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine.

He will be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Thursday.