See Inside The Subterranean Entrance To The Meth Lab Under Walmart Parking Lot

It had to be one of the oddest crime scenes in recent memory: a subterranean drug lab, 12 feet underneath a Walmart parking lot at Sheridan Drive and Bailey Avenue in Amherst, that was being used to cook methamphetamine.

As cars whizzed by on Sheridan, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the region, and shoppers pulled in and out of the sprawling lot to stock up on groceries and other necessities of daily life, police say someone had set up a rather elaborate meth lab.

The brazenness of it all intrigued Amherst Highway Superintendent Patrick G. Lucey enough for him to pay a visit to the site Tuesday. It is the workers in his department who are, after all, responsible for clearing debris from the town’s storm drains.

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