Massive drug lab bust highlights coordinated approach to gangs and organized crime

Massive drug lab bust highlights coordinated approach to gangs and organized crime. Surrey BC

“On behalf of their policing partners, Surrey RCMP is highlighting the multi-pronged, cooperative approach to gangs and organized crime with information on a significant on-going investigation.

As part of an on-going multi-agency, drug investigation, a search warrant was executed at a commercial warehouse located in the 1900-block of McLean Avenue in Port Coquitlam, on April 19, 2021.

Inside the warehouse, police located a large illicit drug-manufacturing site containing multiple pieces of laboratory and drug manufacturing equipment. Officers also located 37 kilograms of chemicals associated to the manufacturing of pure fentanyl.

Surrey RCMP – Massive drug lab bust highlights coordinated approach to gangs and organized crime

Based on the quantity of chemical pre-cursers located, police experts estimate the potential finished yield is 26 kilograms of pure fentanyl. Police experts believe the lab was capable of producing this volume of pure fentanyl on a weekly basis. An illicit fatal street dose of fentanyl is estimated to be 2 milligrams. The seizure is approximately 13 million potentially fatal doses, which is equivalent of a fatal dose to more than two and a half times the population of British Columbia.

Due to the large size of the operation, it took three days to gather evidence and safely dismantle the lab with the assistance of the Surrey RCMP Drug Unit, the Federal RCMP Clandestine Lab Enforcement and Response Team, Lower Mainland Integrated Forensics Identification Section, Health Canada chemists, and Coquitlam RCMP.

This investigation is a prime example of effective multi-jurisdiction cooperation, says Superintendent Aaron Paradis, Community Services Officer for Surrey RCMP. We will continue to coordinate with our policing partners to confront organized crime and gang activity at every opportunity.

This drug and chemical seizure has dealt a multi-million-dollar blow to organized crime and gangs in BC; helping attack the income sources of those who put our communities at risk with drug trafficking; and the gang violence that accompanies it.

Charges have not yet been laid in this file; however, this investigation is ongoing.”

File # 2021-42906

2021-05-13 09:34 PDT

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