Pot and Chemicals Seized in Prince Rupert
Thursday, October 25, 2012 @ 11:00 AM
Containers of chemicals deemed precursors for the production of drugs, seized at Prince Rupert Port – photo courtesy CBSA
Prince Rupert, B.C. There have been two major drug busts in Prince Rupert.
Last evening, RCMP officers executed a search warrant at a home in the 1300 block of Overlooks Street.
RCMP located a marihuana grow operation and seized approximately 135 healthy and mature marihuana plants, many of which were close to being harvested. Police also seized equipment used in the cultivation of Marihuana.
( photo of plants, courtesy RCMP)
A male was taken into custody and later released as the investigation continues. This is the second search warrant executed this month that has led to the discovery of marihuana grow operations in Prince Rupert.
Canada Border Services Agency also report a major bust as Officers uncovered over 14 tonnes of precursor chemicals last month while examining a shipment from China declared as glycerin. The 552 jugs actually contained chemicals used to make drugs like methamphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy), and the so-called date-rape drug gamma-butyrolactone.
"This shipment illustrates that large quantities of chemicals, for use in the illicit narcotics industry, continue to be a threat to Canada and the CBSA," said Dan Bubas, Chief of Operations for the CBSA in Prince Rupert. "This seizure has prevented the potential manufacture of thousands of kilograms of illicit narcotics."
The federal government brought in new laws in 2003 to combat the increasing diversion of precursor chemicals to the drug manufacturing trade.
This is the third and largest precursor chemical seizure at the Port of Prince Rupert in the past two years.
No arrests have been made.
Comments
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Wow! Good for the CBSA and the Police! Nice work guys! Keep up the pressure!
CBSA needs and I say NEEDS lots more help in this new container port. It would be nice if they had the money to put in the x-ray machines and all the other detecting equipment needed to stop contraband in Rupert but the federal government won’t spend the money. Don’t they realize criminals will stop at nothing to import through Rupert, knowing it will be an easy transit of illegal product of all kinds?
This is a nice bust, but what else is coming through that’s not getting seized?
I second the motion to spend the money to install any equipment necessary to intercept shipments such as this. Although I have no idea how much of this poison is brought into our country, this seizure must surely put a dent in the production of illegal drugs. Hooray for cbsa.
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