The B.C. man arrested last week in the drug superlab raid that yielded almost half a tonne of methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine pleaded guilty eight years ago to selling drugs out of his mother’s car.
Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa was 23 years old in 2016 when he was arrested in Burnaby for dial-a-dope trafficking.
During sentencing in 2017, he told the judge he tried to leave the drug business but was threatened with death by his unnamed bosses.
“When I was about a month into selling drugs, I felt really bad about what I was doing to other people,” he said in court audio recordings obtained by CBC. “I said I don’t want to do it, and they kept telling me pretty much that if you don’t, we’ll kill you.”
Randhawa told the judge he even found someone to take over his dial-a-dope job, but they only lasted one day.
“I …