Vic police stumble across clan drug lab

Police conducting routine investigations in Melbourne's south east have stumbled across a drug lab.

Two men and a woman were arrested in Doveton on Wednesday night after officers investigating an unrelated matter discovered the lab, drug manufacturing equipment and a loaded shotgun.

A 48-year-old Rye man and a 21-year-old Doveton man are being questioned by police.

A 38-year-old woman Doveton has been released.