Vancouver police seize nearly $8 million in fentanyl, cocaine from lab in Richmond home

Vancouver police say they have seized $7.8-million’s worth of fentanyl and cocaine after dismantling a lab operating inside a house in a residential Richmond neighbourhood. 

The police department’s organized crime section launched a project in January focused “on a group of criminals that were manufacturing and trafficking illicit drugs at various locations throughout the region,” wrote police in a news release Wednesday.

The investigation led them to the fentanyl lab. Police then executed a search warrant to dismantle the lab and seized more than seven kilograms of suspected fentanyl, 800 grams of methamphetamines, and $39,000 in cash from the lab, according to police.

A man arrested near the lab was found having an additional 15 kilograms

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