B.C. news: RCMP bust operation shipping ‘large amounts’ of drugs to Yukon, Manitoba [Video]

Four people have been arrested in connection with a drug trafficking operation that was allegedly shipping “large amounts” of controlled substances from B.C. to other parts of Canada, the RCMP announced Wednesday.

Members of the Burnaby RCMP’s Drug and Organized Crime Section executed search warrants at two homes in the Lower Mainland back in August, seizing a haul of pills and other substances, plus more than $80,000 in cash, the detachment said in a news release.

The officers found 1.15 kg of suspected cocaine, 25 g of suspected ketamine, 12,547 suspected alprazolam pills and 9,555 suspected hydromorphone pills in the two homes, located in Coquitlam and Surrey, the RCMP said.

Most of the hydromorphone is “believed to be diverted prescription pills,” Burnaby RCMP said in a news release, while others appear to be counterfeits containing fentanyl.

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