Four men to appear in court accused of running 'Breaking Bad-style' meth lab in Warwickshire countryside with five Mexicans

Four more men have been accused of running a Breaking Bad-style meth lab on a remote Warwickshire farm.

The men, all in their thirties, have been ordered to appear in court a month after five Mexican nationals pleaded not guilty to being involved in a conspiracy to produce methamphetamine, a Class-A drug, on the farm.

All of the men involved were charged with producing the highly addictive narcotic following an investigation into an alleged crime group operating a meth lab near the hamlet of Furnace End in Warwickshire.

Kenneth Burton, Paul Harkness Mawby and Anthony Devine, all aged 34, and 36-year-old Mohammed Khan were arrested by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers on Thursday. 

Burton, Mawby and Devine, who are from County Durham and Stockton-on-Tees, have been ordered to appear at Teesside Magistrates' Court, while Khan, from Birmingham, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Saturday.

The four arrests came after five Mexican men appeared at Warwickshire Crown Court on September 10 charged with the offence which took place between February and August this year.

Those men are Alejandro Ambriz Dimas, 45, from Michoacan in southern Mexico; Victor Ramirez, 47, Fausto Beltran, 33, Lioncio Moso Borja, 37, and Jose Nunez Angolo, 44.

All except Dimas are from the Sinaloa region of northwest Mexico. The men claim that they were legitimately working as chefs and builders on the farm.

They appeared before Her Honour Judge R Campbell and were accompanied in the dock by interpreters.

Their respective lawyers told the court that they were in the UK for working reasons and not involved in any conspiracy to produce illegal drugs.

The defendants are alleged to be part of a crime group that was operating a secret meth lab on a farm near the Warwickshire hamlet.

NCA officers arrested the Mexican men after raiding the farm they were staying at in an operation alongside Warwickshire Police and other emergency services.

They have since been remanded into custody ahead of their next trial, which is expected to last a month in February 2027.

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