B.C. moves to seize property where country’s largest meth, fentanyl lab was discovered

British Columbia’s Civil Forfeiture Office is targeting a rural Okanagan property that the RCMP say housed the largest and most sophisticated methamphetamine and fentanyl lab in the country when they raided the premises last fall.A notice of civil claim recently filed in B.C. Supreme Court alleges that the property in the small town of Falkland was used in the production, possession, storage and trafficking of illicit drugs, including fentanyl, meth and MDMA, and names its owners as Vancouver-area men Michael Driehuyzen and Gaganpreet Randhawa. Mr. Randhawa is the lone person facing charges in relation to the Oct. 25 bust.Mounties also said they found $500,000 in cash at the lab, as well as 54 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kgs of methamphetamine, and smaller amounts of cocaine, MDMA and cannabis. They also found a total of 89 firearms, including handguns, AR-15-style rifles and submachine guns, as well as small explosive devices, ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines and body armour. All of these items have been seized criminally.