Police raid ‘secret lab’ allegedly run by John Gilligan and seize drugs worth millions
Spanish police went public on Thursday with the first images of the ‘Breaking Bad’-style drug lab veteran Irish criminal John Gilligan has been accused of running as they said it could have produced up to €8 million worth of narcotics.
They released footage showing the moment heavily-armed officers used battering rams to smash into the Costa Blanca property where they discovered the laboratory and arrested Gilligan in a dawn raid.
They also revealed they had found a revolver wrapped in plastic inside a hideaway on an outside wall.
In their first official comment on Gilligan’s detention last month detectives accused him of flooding the region’s streets with illegal narcotics including pink cocaine with the help of a North Macedonia clan he allegedly led.
The dramatic firearms discovery at the property close to the holiday resort of Torrevieja had echoes of his October 2020 drugs arrest at a nearby villa where a gun initially linked to the murder of crime reporter Veronica…
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