BC Police Announce Dismantling of Drug-Making and Distribution Ring With 8 Arrests

An RCMP patch is seen on the shoulder of an assistant commissioner, in Surrey, B.C., on April 28, 2023. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Police in British Columbia say they have dismantled a “significant, sophisticated” criminal organization involved in manufacturing and distributing fentanyl-laced counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

Mounties say eight men from the Metro Vancouver communities of Surrey, Richmond and Delta have been arrested, many of them with links to organized crime.