 | Two B.C. residents have been charged in connection with 40,000 fentanyl pills and 132 kilograms of cocaine seized at the Port of Vancouver. The investigation began when U.S. customs officers in Los Angeles alerted Canadian officials to three roller suitcases inside a refrigerated container arriving from Brazil. RCMP searched a Richmond apartment and seized 40,000 fentanyl pills and a 1 kg brick of methamphetamine. Yan Chau Lam, also know as Andrew Lam, 48, of Richmond has been charged with conspiring to import a controlled substance, conspiring to possess a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, and unlawfully possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. |
 | Gertrude Cheong, also know as Sok Wai Cheong, 43, of Vancouver, has been charged with conspiring to possess a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. The RCMP arrested Lam, a Richmond resident, and Cheong, who lives in Vancouver, in February 2016, shortly after the shipment was picked up from the shipping container. |
