‘Unacceptable’ That Police Caused Drug Charges to Be Stayed: BC Public Safety Minister

‘Unacceptable’ That Police Caused Drug Charges to Be Stayed: BC Public Safety Minister
B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth looks on at the legislature in Victoria on Oct. 5, 2023. The Canadian Press/Chad Hipolito
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B.C.’s public safety minister said he was upset to hear that criminal charges against some of the top fentanyl traffickers in the province have been stayed due to police actions taken during the investigation, calling it “unacceptable.”

Minister Mike Farnworth told reporters on Feb. 15 that he was as “angry as everybody else when I heard the news about the staying of the charges.”