‘Breaking Bad’ Moment In Canada As Police Bust ‘Largest Drug Superlab’; Gaganpreet Randhawa Key Suspect
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized fentanyl, which amounted to more than 95,500,000 potentially lethal doses. The police said the amount of fentanyl seized could have taken the ‘life of every Canadian citizen twice over’
Federal investigators seized 54 kg of fentanyl, massive amounts of precursor chemicals, 390 kg of methamphetamine, 35 kg of cocaine, 15 kg of MDMA, and 6 kg of cannabis from the ‘superlab’ in Canada. (Photo: RCMP)
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has delivered a “decisive blow” to a major transnational organised crime group by dismantling “the largest and most sophisticated” fentanyl and methamphetamine drug superlab in Canada.
According to the police, the amount of fentanyl and other materials seized at the facility would have amounted to more than 95,500,000 potentially lethal doses and worth an estimated $485 million in profit. These potential lethal doses of fentanyl were prevented from entering the Canadian society.
The “superlab”, which was located in community of Falkland, B.C., an incorporated community about 50 km east of Kamloops, has the capability of producing multiple types of illicit drugs. Federal investigators seized 54 kg of fentanyl, massive amounts of precursor chemicals, 390 kg of methamphetamine, 35 kg of cocaine, 15 kg of MDMA, and 6 kg of cannabis.
RCMP Federal Policing units in BC launched an investigation last week into a transnational organised crime group believed to be involved in the mass-production, and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine across Canada, and internationally.
During investigation, members of the RCMP Drugs and Organized Crime team came to know about several large shipments of methamphetamine that had been prepared for shipment. In order to prevent the export of these major drug shipments, Federal investigators with the assistance from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) executed an additional series of search warrants, and seized 310 kg of methamphetamine prior to it departing Canada, as per the RCMP website.
According to the RCMP, the amount of fentanyl seized could have taken the “life of every Canadian citizen twice over.”
Details of the seizure were shared Thursday afternoon in Surrey, B.C,. by Assistant Commissioner David Teboul, commander of the RCMP federal policing program in B.C. and Yukon.
Teboul has called the seizure “unprecedented” in Canadian policing in a written statement.
Suspect Gaganpreet Randhawa was identified as the main suspect, and arrested by Federal Policing Group-6 investigators. Randhawa is currently in custody, and has been charged with numerous drug, and firearms-related offences.
