Langley superlab bust revisit

Burnaby RCMP announced a fentanyl ‘super lab’ bust at a Langley farm on November 27, 2024.

Cops use ‘super lab’ to describe large-scale, commercial drug operations.

It was another one down for the usual suspects; the Sandher Crime Family, Sinaloa Cartel, and Sami El-Helou.

Cops executed 4 search warrants in the Lower Mainland October 16 and 17, 2024. Raids revealed a drug lab at a rural property in Langley capable of producing 7 kg of fentanyl weekly. Cops seized fentanyl, hundreds of kilograms of precursor chemicals and two vehicles.

The most common synthesis route for fentanyl uses precursor chemicals: 4-anilino-N-phenethyl-4-piperidine (ANPP) and N-phenethyl-4-piperidone (NPP).

Two still unnamed bums, a 31-year-old Burnaby man and a 43-year-old Surrey man, were arrested and face charges. One was an organic chemist from India. He reportedly fled back to Punjab. Three other search warrants were executed at their residences. It took cops three days to dismantle the lab, destroy the equipment and dispose of the contaminated materials. This was the first bust after the Sandher/KTF/Sinaloa Cartel Falkland lab was taken down. The North Vernon bust followed, then the 3 labs in the Lower Mainland in spring of 2025.


Cops fingered 4 criminal organizations in Western Canada as high-level fentanyl threats to the security of the country. Leader of the parade, until their main labs got busted, were the KTF/Sinaola Cartel/Sandhers.

Fentanyl was shipped south, some of it by helicopter. In the mix was Ed ‘Skeeter’ Russell and Hunter Helicopters. https://www.tiktok.com/@skeeterrussell?lang=en

Press correctly made the connection to the Wolfpack. Precursors to feed the labs flowed through the HAMC’s Ricco the Pig Puncher and DeltaPort. There have been no further details revealed since the bust.