Law enforcement and detection
Rolling meth labs can be concealed on or in vehicles as large as 18 wheelers or as small as motorcycles. citation needed] Rolling labs are more difficult to detect than stationary ones and can be often hidden amidst legal cargo on big trucks. Many rolling lab discoveries were the result of an officer just “stumbling” onto them.Improved officer training and checking suspicious vehicles with K-9 units may allow increased detection.
In popular culture
A recurring location in several early episodes of the television series Breaking Bad is a 1986 Fleetwood Bounder motorhome used by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman as their mobile laboratory.
A mobile crack cocaine factory features as a lyrical motif in Full Metal Jackoff, a side-long track on Jello Biafra’s collaboration with D.O.A, Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors.
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