Today (27 April) NCA investigators, suppor
ted by officers from Warwickshire Police, raided the lab housed in farm buildings on Ullenhall Lane, near Redditch.
Members of the organised crime group believed to be running the drugs operation using the encrypted phone network EncroChat – two men aged 40 and 60 – were arrested in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire.
A third man, aged 50, from Quinton, Birmingham – suspected of operating the lab – was apprehended at his home address.
Two other individuals – a man aged 36 and a woman aged 28 – were arrested at a building on the site.
All five are still in custody being interviewed.
The NCA believes the crime group were producing around one tonne of amphetamine per month – worth £2million at wholesale and up to £10million at street level – for distribution to criminals throughout the country.
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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.
A look inside the recently uncovered drugs lab near Redditch. Pictures: National Crime Agency HERE’s a look inside the industrial-scale amphetamine lab near Redditch which was uncovered by police earlier today. It is believed the crime group involved with the drugs operation were producing around one tonne of amphetamine per month – worth £2million at wholesale and up to £10million at street level – for distribution to criminals throughout the country. The National Crime Agency (NCA) and Warwickshire Police raided farm buildings on Ullenhall Lane, near Redditch, today (Tuesday, April 27). Five people have now been arrested in connection with the operation.