Major fentanyl drug lab busted in Port Coquitlam

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.

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.