Two Breaking Bad-style labs have been discovered in an operation to smash a gang's multi-million pound racket in supplying deadly fake prescription drugs.
Four suspects were arrested, and cash, drugs, and guns seized in dawn raids today (May 17). The move comes after a lengthy investigation into the supply of counterfeit prescription drugs, some of which are thought to have been sold on the streets of Cheetham Hill and the Strangeways area of Bury New Road.
Police carried out raids at nine addresses in Swinton, Seedley, Pendlebury, and Wigan. Two labs for making benzodiazepines - known as "street benzos" were in premises in Albion Street, Swinton, and and semi-rural house in Lower Green Lane, Astley.
Highly sophisticated equipment had been installed in both labs, and is believed the gang had been making the drugs for a couple of years in the Astley location, and more recently at Swinton as demand grew.
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