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(CNN) — Authorities say they’ve busted a large illegal winery operating out of a wastewater treatment plant in a small Alabama town.
It happened in the town of Rainsville, home to around 5,000 people and about 100 miles northeast of Birmingham.
After receiving an anonymous tip Thursday about a possible illegal wine production operation being run inside a municipal building, law enforcement arrived at the Rainsville Waste Water Treatment Plant to find a large amount of illegal alcohol and other equipment used to make wine at home, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said.
“This is definitely one of the biggest operations we’ve seen in our county and possibly our state,” Sheriff Nick Welden said in a statement.