RCMP Bust Secret Drug Lab, Seize Fentanyl

0:00It's April 21st. This is Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. RCMP in Athabasca just took down a secret drug lab in a small hamlet east of town, up in northern Alberta. They figured out it was cooking up synthetic drugs and called in heavy hitters like the clandestine lab enforcement and response team, forensics, experts from Edmonton and the Alberta law enforcement response team. They got a search warrant and spent from April 14th to 17th, carefully dismantling the whole operation. Chemists and hazardous waste probes had to step in because the chemicals were super toxic and could blow up easy. S.G. was an expected and working in. Justin Dolly, the acting detachment commander, says the lab's size and those nasty chemicals were a huge danger to everyone nearby, not just the operators. Shutting it down stopped thousands of potentially deadly doses from hitting Alberta streets. Cops seized about 1kg of what they think is fentanyl, plus tons of precursor chemicals

1:04in waste. It's a big win, but they're asking anyone with info to come forward with tips. This bus shows how these hidden labs threaten whole communities and the RCMP staying on it to keep the poison off the market.