In the case against four men who have set up a drug lab in Veeningen, the court imposed prison sentences for up to two years. The lab was rolled up on 3 February last year.
According to the judge, there was a professionally set up lab, where amphetamine (speed) was made.
The case came rolling by the arrest of a now 19-year-old man from Utrecht. He was put aside the day before the raid on the A28 near Lankhorst. In the police system, the license plate was registered as stolen. The bus also turned out to be stolen. The agents smoke a chemical air in the body.
The stench came from four orange barrels with chemicals from an address in Veeningen. The country house was observed later that day and the officers invaded around half past three in the morning.
Two men aged 27 and 31 without a home address worked as chefs in the lab. The oldest was involved in setting up the lab from the start. He knew about the amphetamine production process. He was involved in the period from November 2023 to the beginning of February 2024. He was given the highest punishment: two years in prison. Five years in prison was demanded against him.
The lab was set up to produce large quantities of speed, but it didn’t come that far.
The 62-year-old resident also received two years in prison for setting up the lab and money laundering. He also took the initiative to set up a drug lab. The man was struggling with major financial problems. He traveled to the Randstad to get help to set up a drug lab.
The judge believes that the man is the initiator in this whole. The former resident of the building made his holiday home available on his site as accommodation for the chefs. The sixties now lives in Purmerend.
He bought wood and painted the black to somewhat extract the lab from view. He was demanded for three years. The 27-year-old cook was involved in this case for a shorter time. In prison was demanded against him for a year and a half, but the court finds nine months sufficient.
A 19-year-old man from Utrecht who courier in front of the lab has to serve a six-month prison sentence. Cell material of him was found on a face mask in the lab. The man said he had set up that thing for a joke, but the judge does not believe that.
The costs of cleaning up the lab, more than 80,000 euros, is recovered from the perpetrators. Everyone pays a part of this. The 62-year-old suspect has earned more than 23,000 euros with the production of the synthetic drugs. He must pay that to the state. The 49-year-old resident was also arrested during the raid. Her case will be dealt with in substance in August.