Derek Dragsnes ran the unit which was flooding the black-market with street Valium from a small Scots village
An industrial unit in a small Scots village was turned into a mass-scale drugs factory capable of producing hundreds of thousands of 'Blue Plague' pills in just an hour before a gang member was busted by police in a raid. Derek Dragsnes ran the unit in the Lanarkshire village of Salsburgh, which was flooding the black-market with street Valium.
Prosecutors told the court how it was immediately clear that the property was being used as an etizolam lab on a commercial scale for Dragness's illegal scheme after officers forced entry with a search warrant. One room contained a pill press machine capable of producing 171,000 tablets per hour. In addition to the tablets containing etizolam, a total of 3,476 tablets of similar appearance to the etizolam tablets and stamped with similar designs, some of which bore the mark 'valium' on one side were also recovered and analysed. The court heard that these tablets did not contain controlled drugs but were clearly designed to be sold as such to unsuspecting buyers.
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