It turned out to be more than just property offences officers attended a Lake Macquarie home for yesterday morning.
A man has been charged after the Lake Macquarie Property Crime Reduction Team attended a home in Regent Street, Tingara Heights following investigations into an earlier break-in at Charlestown.
It didn't take long for the search to take an unprecedented turn with officers locating a man inside the home allegedly disposing items consistent with a clandestine laboratory - items used to manufacture the drug.
The 30-year-old man was arrested, the house locked up, and officers from Fire and Rescue NSW Hazmat and the State Crime Command Chemical Operations Unit were called in to attend the crime scene.
The man was taken to Belmont Police Station and charged with break, enter and steal, resist arrest, possess precursor and four counts of possess apparatus.
He was granted strict bail conditions and will appear in court today.
