BY SUSAN WARE

A two-year investigation led local and federal law enforcement agencies to raid a mobile home in Allenstown, shutting down what appears to have been a methamphetamine lab.

“This is not over. It is just beginning,” said Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland.

According to Mulholland, he is waiting for a federal grand jury to hand down drug trafficking indictments on “less than 10 people.” Because the suspects will be facing federal charges, it had not been determined whether Allenstown police or U.S.
Marshals will make the arrests. Mulholland expects the federal indictments to take at least another week.

The mobile home at 10 Edgewood Drive had been vacant since June, but there has been activity there, said Mulholland.

Because the case is ongoing, he would not say how the lab was discovered.

The mobile home is owned by Susan and Waldo Brown. Waldo Brown is currently incarcerated for a fourth DWI offense and for being a habitual offender. Susan Brown now lives at 264 Pinewood Road and gave police permission to enter the trailer on Friday, July 27.

Outside the trailer are piles of trash and debris, including several gas grills, large chemical barrels, glass tubing and other drug-making paraphernalia.

The Olde Towne Homeowners Co-op that owns the mobile home park near Bear Brook State Park is currently in the process of evicting the Browns, said Mulholland.

Neighbors of 10 Edgewood Drive declined to comment, saying that this incident was giving their park a bad reputation and that they wanted it to go away.

While other parts of the country seem to be shutting down methamphetamine labs on a regular basis, New Hampshire has had only a handful.

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, a methamphetamine lab has not been discovered in New Hampshire since 2003, when a single lab was found. Over the last five years, there have been five methamphetamine labs discovered in the Granite State.