The Prince George RCMP completed the biggest drug bust in the city’s history this week.
It happened on Wednesday (August 21) when the RCMP responded to a reported break and enter on the 4400 block of 5th Avenue.
Officers noticed a lot of counterfeit cigarettes in the home while they were investigating, and returned shortly after with a search warrant.
They recovered $500,000 in cash alone, as well as nearly 40 kilograms of suspected illicit drugs – including suspected cocaine, fentanyl, and meth – 11 kilograms of cannabis, 11 kilograms of an “unknown cutting agent,” and 120,000 counterfeit cigarettes.
At this time, police do not have an estimate as to what the street value of these drugs would be, or where they originated from. The investigation is ongoing.
“It is obvious we can no longer ignore the effects of the BC gang conflict in Prince George, and this is a clear indication that more than our local drug traffickers are using Prince George as a base of operations,” Corporal Jennifer Cooper told the media at an in person event at the local detachment this morning.
“We will be increasing our enforcement efforts in this area to reflect these developments.”
Cooper said this bust will take “a significant bite out of the local drug trade. This is going to disrupt their activity for quite a while they try and figure out what their next steps are.”
“This very likely involves all of North District, and there may be a distribution component to this given the volume, we certainly expect it will leave an impact,” Inspector Darin Rappel, interim Detachment Commander added.
No arrests can be made until samples of the drugs are sent to a national lab to be tested and confirmed, something Cooper said is a part of every drug investigation.
(files by Will Peters-MyPGNow)
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