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Fentanyl lab busted By Jeremy Deutsch
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SPRAY DOWN: Members of the RCMP’s CLEAR (Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response) team along Burnaby firefighters spent Friday cleaning up a fentanyl drug lab in a townhouse complex in the 6800 block of Prenter Street. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
Police are calling it the biggest fentanyl lab to date in B.C., and on Thursday, it was busted in Burnaby. The lab was discovered by Delta Police while they were working on their own drug investigation in three cities, including Burnaby. On Friday, the Delta Police provided details about the investigation, including the lab found inside a unit in a quiet townhouse complex in the 6800 block of Prenter Street. Delta Police spokesperson Sgt. Sarah Swallow explained the apartment was being used as a fentanyl processing lab, which means people were taking the drug and turning into something that can be sold on the street. In most cases, fentanyl, which is tasteless, colourless and can be 100 times more powerful than morphine, is dyed and mixed with or sold as heroin on the streets. The drug has been blamed for hundreds of overdose deaths in the region and across the country in recent years. “With the use of this lab, a large quantity of fentanyl that would be going out into the street now isn’t, and that could save lives immediately,” Swallow said. However, she couldn’t say exactly how much fentanyl was recovered but added the amount is in kilograms. Police said two men were arrested and are in custody until their next court appearance.The men are facing numerous drug-related charges but have not been identified until their first court Continued on page 3
Hundreds line up for hours to see city art Julie MacLellan
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Passersby who happened along Deer Lake Avenue on Saturday evening can be forgiven for thinking there must have been a big-name rock concert in town.Why
else would the thousand or more folks – many of them students and young people – lining up along on the street have been waiting so patiently for two hours or more? As it happens, it wasn’t a rock concert. It was an
art opening – and one so far out of the ordinary that, come Monday morning, members of the Burnaby Arts Council were still rather flabbergasted by the experience. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” marvelled Irene Mc-
Cutcheon, a member of the arts council’s board of directors. “I have never seen that, not even at the Vancouver Art Gallery.” She turned out early in the evening to check out Luminescence, the latest exhibition at the arts council’s
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still people standing outside waiting to get in. (I was among them: having staked my place in line at 7:15 p.m., I got through the front doors at about 9:30 p.m.) In the end, the arts council Continued on page 8
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Deer Lake Gallery – featuring the work of 25 artists on the theme of light. The opening reception was originally intended to run from 7 to 9 p.m. By 6:30 p.m., there were already crowds beginning to line up; by 10 p.m., there were
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