The largest illicit drug lab ever on Canadian soil was announced October 25, 2024. Haul was 390kg of meth, 54kg of fentanyl, 35kg of cocaine and 15kg of MDMA. The Falkland drug lab was connected to the September 2024 seizure of 30 tonnes of precursors in Enderby. The Falkland lab was a major part of the Lyons/Sandher/Sinaloa Cartel operation.
89 guns were seized in raids in Surrey October 25. Included are two .50 cal sniper rifles, 45 handguns, 21 AR-15-style rifles and submachine guns.
Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa was the only man busted. He has made at very least 6 court appearances and has been caged since he was busted in October. The B.C. director of civil forfeiture filed a claim against the property at 5011 Hoath Road in Falkland, as well as the various pieces of lab equipment on January 31, 2025. Named in the claim are property owner Michael Driehuyzen and Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa.
Michael Driehuyzen bought the 163-acre lab property in Falkland in May 2007 for $655k. It was used for an illegal grow op for years. He now lives on a chicken farm on Downes Road in Abbotsford owned by a Kamloops poultry company. Driehuyzen claims full ignorance. The Sandhers leased the ground from Driehuyzen. Sandher lawyer Bert Tonsoo drafted the lease agreement.
The Falkland lab was visited by Sinaloa boss Edgar Watson, and KTF brass including Bir Singh Sandher, Gurjit Singh Jhajj and interim KTF boss Arsh Dalla before commissioning. Gurtaj Singh Sandher was at the lab. Sami El-Helou handled payment for the purchase of precursors. Those came through the HAMC and Ricco the Pig Puncher at DeltaPort.
RCMP raided a property in Enderby in September 2024 and seized over 30,000 kg of precursor chemicals. The 2.6-hectare property was purchased in May 2023 by 2735152 Ontario for $1m. It’s Ottawa address is a Mexican restaurant. Workers there claim ignorance of the company or purported owner Osman Ghazie.
The Sandhers were in partnership in the synthetic drug business with Donnie Lyons who they executed on June 15, 2024. Prabtaj Singh Sandher and Gurtaj Singh Sandher are prime suspects in the Lyons murder.
The hit was ordered by Edgar Watson with Sami El-Helou. Final approval came from Chapito Ivan Archivaldo Guzman.
Cleaning up the lab cost taxpayers over $500k. The setup was as sophisticated as any cops have ever seen. The lab mass produced fentanyl, meth and MDMA, most of which was destined for Australia and New Zealand. Several tons of unregulated chemicals used to produce P2P (phenyl-2-propanone) were seized. Seen for the first time in Western Canada, P2P is a Class A scheduled precursor essential to the manufacture of meth.
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