1 arrested in Surrey for investigation into under-construction B.C. drug lab<\/p>\n
Published 8:28 am Wednesday, July 29, 2026<\/p>\n
Four people were arrested in three separate searches stemming from an investigation by B.C.\u2019s anti-gang police into an under-construction drug lab in rural Abbotsford.<\/p>\n
Police searched three properties \u2013 the lab in Abbotsford and residences in Surrey and Enderby \u2013 on May 21 leading to the seizure of firearms, explosives and drugs, Sgt. Sarbjit K. Sangha told media during a Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit news conference in Surrey on Wednesday (July 29). The lab was on a rural, rental property in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n
During the searches, four people were arrested: one in Abbotsford, one in Surrey and two in Enderby. For the Enderby arrests, one suspect is a resident of Enderby while the other is from Kelowna.<\/p>\n
They have been released pending further investigation, Sangha said.<\/p>\n
No charges have yet been laid.<\/p>\n
Sangha said that the large-scale clandestine synthetic drug lab was still under construction, but if it had been completed \u201cit would have been capable of producing a variety of drugs, including fentanyl, methamphetamine, MDMA, and GHB.\u201d<\/p>\n
She wouldn\u2019t comment on the potential market value of the drugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never like to talk about the market value of the drugs because we do not want to glamorize that it is profitable. So we are going to focus on the what it could have caused in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the searches, police seized the following firearms and explosives:<\/p>\n
\u2022 44 firearms, including privately made firearms and prohibited firearms<\/p>\n
\u2022 Prohibited devices, including 11 suppressors and a number of over-capacity cartridge magazines<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ammunition<\/p>\n
\u2022 65 tubes of emulsion explosives<\/p>\n
Sangha said commercial explosives are strictly regulated in Canada and are only available to authorized and licensed commercial blasting companies working under those licences or police explosive technicians performing office duties.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is illegal for the general public to just go buy explosives, and these were commercial-grade explosives that are only used by mining companies or construction companies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
For drug production and trafficking, police seized the following:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Approximately two kilograms of fentanyl<\/p>\n
\u2022 Approximately two kilograms of methamphetamine<\/p>\n
\u2022 Approximately 64 litres of GHB<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, MDMA, oxycodone, benzodiazepines, psilocybin, cannabis products and other controlled substances<\/p>\n
\u2022 Drug precursors, packaging materials and trafficking ledgers<\/p>\n
\u2022 315 cannabis plants<\/p>\n
In the searches, police also seized other evidence including:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Approximately $4,000 in Canadian cash<\/p>\n
\u2022 Precious metals, including four gold bars, one gold coin, 32 silver bars and 74 silver coins of varying weights<\/p>\n
\u2022 A stolen Chevrolet Silverade Trail Boss<\/p>\n
\u2022 Five vehicles and a motorcycle<\/p>\n
\u2022 Multiple electronic devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 arrested in Surrey for investigation into under-construction B.C. drug lab Published 8:28 am Wednesday, July 29, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-844382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}