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Police say they are awaiting test results and further information before considering charging the occupants of a central Queenstown house suspected of being used as a drugs laboratory.
Acting Detective Sergeant Grant Miller, of Queenstown CIB, said police were interviewing the two people who rented the house after chemicals and equipment used to make methamphetamine, or P, were found.
Police executed a search warrant at the property on Monday, then called in the national clandestine laboratory team from Auckland to make a full forensic examination yesterday.
A number of items were seized and sent for analysis, and police were awaiting results of those tests.
Mr Miller said the two people who had been renting the house were helping police with the investigation. No arrests had yet been made, but charges were likely.
Manufacturing methamphetamine was highly dangerous and could cause extensive damage to properties where it was made, he said.
The house had been quarantined and the council advised that illegal drugs had been manufactured in it.
Mr Miller said the property owner, who lived outside Queenstown, would be served with a cleansing order requiring the dwelling to be commercially cleaned before it could be inhabited.
- NZPA
