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Spanish police have arrested 10 people and seized 70kg of methamphetamine after discovering a “highly sophisticated” synthetic drug laboratory capable of producing up to 10kg of meth a day.

The Guardia Civil operation – named Heisenberg VI-Cabarna in an apparent reference to the alias adopted by the meth-making protagonist of the TV series Breaking Bad – began in February last year after officers noticed that an individual in the Basque province of Bizkaia was receiving drugs from a criminal gang based in Catalonia.

Their investigation was complicated by the fact that the mobile lab producing the drugs could be transported over long distances across northern Spain, moving from the Basque Country to Castilla y León and then to Catalonia, where it was finally seized.

When the Guardia Civil traced the lab to a property in the city of Granollers, 30km (20 miles) north of Barcelona, they found an elaborate and potentially lethal facility, complete with charcoal filters to get rid of any smells that could attract attention.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Check out the Ikea kid’s chair in the mobile meth lab

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's the cornerstone of their methloften line.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Breaking Bad goes international.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Rompiendo mal

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Guiterre Blanco, a su servicio.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

TIL it's not just North America with a meth problem. You never hear about it in international news here.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or if we are going to use other countries, Australia has a much worse Meth problem than the US. In fact it probably has the worst per capita addiction in the world.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I wonder why this isn't something that ever makes the news here in the US. You hear about meth in the US (mostly when an individual drug user does something crazy or when their meth lab explodes), but anytime another country is mentioned in regards to drugs, it's always about fentanyl or opioids or cocaine or even cannabis.

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