Fentanyl lab busted in north Edmonton, $450K in various drugs seized

Three radical are facing a lengthy database of charges aft the Edmonton Police Service busted a cause laboratory successful the city’s northeast and recovered astir fractional a cardinal dollars worthy of drugs similar fentanyl, meth and coke.

The probe began successful November 2024.

Police said the northeast beats team, on with the pack and cause enforcement unit, began an probe into a radical suspected of trafficking drugs from the British Columbia Lower Mainland.

Police said the Grande Prairie RCMP helped with the probe arsenic well.

On Jan. 28, constabulary searched 2 edifice rooms successful Edmonton, a vehicle, and a location adjacent 117 Avenue and 87 Street successful the Alberta Avenue neighbourhood, wherever constabulary said officers recovered a fentanyl processing operation.

During the searches, constabulary said the pursuing items were seized:

• More than 18 kg of methamphetamine with an estimated thoroughfare worth of $180,000
• Over 3.5 kg of cocaine with an estimated thoroughfare worth of $229,000
• Over 2 kg of fentanyl with an estimated thoroughfare worth of $24,000
• 25 litres of GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug) with an estimated thoroughfare worth of implicit $12,000
• Nearly 60 grams of Alprazolam pulverization (also known arsenic Xanax, a benzodiazepine utilized to dainty anxiousness and abused) with an estimated thoroughfare worth of implicit $8,500
• A firearm

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The fentanyl laboratory was dismantled by the EPS clandestine laboratory team.

Two men, Brett Ogilvie, 43, Owen Lloyd, 21, and a woman, Robin Kelley, 47, of Edmonton were arrested.

A full of 27 transgression charges person been laid, including possession for the intent of trafficking, accumulation of a controlled substance, and unauthorized possession of a firearm.