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By Tom Symonds
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A suspected £10m amphetamine laboratory has been uncovered during a police raid.
The large-scale operation was found in outbuildings near Redditch, Worcestershire.
The investigation began after text messages were obtained by French police during the penetration of the encrypted phone network Encrochat last year.
Vats and sacks of ingredients were found in the lab, which is currently too hazardous for police to enter.
Five people have been arrested in the joint operation between the National Crime Agency and Warwickshire Police on Tuesday.
Firefighters and a chemicals expert were drafted in to assist with the raid.
Breaking Bad-style amphetamine lab raided in rural Warwickshire
It s thought the lab was making drugs with a street value of £10million every month
16:27, 27 APR 2021
Updated
A drugs lab reminiscent of hit show Breaking Bad has been found in Warwickshire
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An industrial-scale Breaking Bad-style laboratory producing huge quantities of amphetamine has been raided in rural Warwickshire.
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An industrial-scale laboratory believed to have been producing large quantities of amphetamine has been uncovered as part of a National Crime Agency investigation.
NCA investigators, supported by officers from Warwickshire Police, arrested a 26-year-old man and a woman aged 28 during Tuesday’s raid on farm buildings on Ullenhall Lane, near Redditch.
Two men aged 40 and 60 were arrested in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, as part of the inquiry into an organised crime group believed to be running the drugs operation using the encrypted phone network EncroChat.
A fifth suspect, a 50-year-old man suspected of operating the lab, was arrested at his home address in Quinton, Birmingham.