A bounty of weapons, cash and illegal drugs was seized during a search of a White Rock home last week, police have announced.
In a news release issued Wednesday afternoon, investigators with the Mounties' anti-gang unit list a Kriss Vector .45 ACP rifle, a loaded Smith and Wesson handgun and a Browning Deringer handgun as among six weapons seized from a home and vehicle in the 800-block of Parker Street as part of the May 3 operation.
More than nine kilograms of compressed heroin and cocaine, 408 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 27 bottles of "Ephedrine HCL", approximately $7,000 cash, 773 rounds of ammunition and a quantity of unknown tablets and powder were among other items discovered in the process.
"Test results have now confirmed the presence of fentanyl in the house," the release states. "Investigators will now await the results on the analysis of the majority of the unknown powders."
Officers with the Mounties' Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, with assistance from White Rock RCMP and the Lower Mainland District Emergency Response Team, descended on a blue, two-storey home around 5:30 p.m. May 3. Members of the RCMP's Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response Team were called to assist in determining if the site was a clandestine drug lab.
Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton told Peace Arch News the next day that the investigation had been ongoing for "about a couple months."
Two people – a 46-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman – were arrested at the home on the day of the search. As of Wednesday, the man remained in custody for breach of unrelated bail conditions, and the woman had been released on a promise to appear. Both are expected to be charged in connection with the White Rock incident.