The Bay of Plenty Police organised crime squad this week executed 16 search warrants which uncovered five residential methamphetamine laboratories and one mobile lab, located in a car.
Chemicals and ingredients used to make methamphetamine worth up to $850,000 were found, with the capability to produce around $2.4 million of the drug.
More than $220,000 in cash, $100,000 worth of silver and gold coins and bars, nine illegal firearms, 17 cars, five motorcycles, a rural property and a 50-foot launch were also seized.
Ten people have been arrested who will together face 90 charges including conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine, the manufacture and supply of methamphetamine, supplying pre-cursor ingredients used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, attempting to pervert the course of justice, possession of firearms and receiving stolen property.
Further charges are likely.
