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Scotland’s biggest street valium factory uncovered at village industrial unit in Lanarkshire

19.12.2021 - 13:59

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Scotland’s biggest street valium factory has been uncovered at a village industrial unit. Police say the equipment seized could churn out 180,000 so-called blue plague pills an hour.

Officers are now trying to track down the people responsible.Street valium, also known as etizolam, was involved in the vast majority of Scotland’s record-breaking 1339 drug deaths in 2020.

Police chiefs hailed officers’ “outstanding” work in smashing the operation in Salsburgh, Lanarkshire. A crime team secured search warrants for the Springfield Park unit in September as a result of “intelligence development work”.In a crime report to councillors, the force stated: “The location housed a commercial site being used for the large scale production of