Chemist arrested during bust of 3 Lower Mainland fentanyl labs

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British Columbia

Labs successful Pitt Meadows, Mission and Aldergrove were equipped with specialized instrumentality often recovered successful world and nonrecreational probe facilities, accidental police.

The clandestine labs were located successful Pitt Meadows, Mission and Aldergrove

Karin Larsen · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 6:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Three clandestine fentanyl labs person been busted by police in British Columbia's Lower Mainland, and 2 radical arrested, including an individual claiming to person expertise arsenic a chemist.

B.C. RCMP accidental the labs were located successful Pitt Meadows, Mission and Aldergrove, and equipped with specialized chemic processing instrumentality often recovered successful world and nonrecreational probe facilities.

According to Chief Supt. Stephen Lee, the labs were susceptible of producing fentanyl, MDMA, besides known arsenic ecstasy, and GHB, besides known arsenic liquid ecstasy.

"The discovery of commercialized people chemistry instrumentality astatine each locations, successful summation to the apprehension of of an idiosyncratic who we fishy has a inheritance successful chemistry, points to a disturbing inclination of progressively precocious scientific and method expertise among transnational organized transgression groups progressive successful the accumulation and organisation of illicit drugs," said Lee.

Search warrants were besides executed successful Aldergrove and Langley, according to Lee.

The quantity of drugs and precursors seized were adjacent to 5.5 cardinal doses of perchance lethal fentanyl, according to investigators.

"It speaks to the level of sophistication that we're seeing successful organized transgression successful the accumulation of synthetic drugs in Canada," Assistant Commissioner Dave Teboul said.

There is nary grounds the drugs produced by the labs were being shipped to the U.S., helium said.

"One determination successful peculiar we intercepted it astatine the close clip due to the fact that we judge it was successful the process of expanding operations," helium said.

Lee said the probe dates backmost to the summertime of 2023 erstwhile the RCMP clandestine laboratory enforcement and effect squad started looking into the importation of unregulated chemicals and commercialized laboratory equipment.