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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Large Fentanyl Labs Moving to Canada and California

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat

According to Katarina Szulc, a recent CBC article hinted that the Hells Angels were behind certain labs, but her sources say the Sinaloa Cartel is the real one responsible for the superlabs and most of the fentanyl on Canadian streets. “So far, they have been keeping a low profile, under the radar,” she said.

"Superlab interdictions across B.C., Ontario and Alberta suggest that domestic supply is more than sufficient to supply the domestic market," the note says.


In October 2023, Los Chapitos displayed narco-banners in Culiacán and other towns in Sinaloa, announcing the ban on the sale, manufacture and transportation of fentanyl.

The banners also warned of the sale or commercialization of chemical precursors necessary to produce the drug. The message, attributed to Ivan Archivaldo, Jesus Alfredo and Joaquin Guzman, sons of drug trafficker Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman , said: "We have never been nor will we be related to that business. Face the consequences."

With these warnings, this faction of the Sinaloa Cartel was distancing itself from the manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl, despite the fact that this business is one of its most profitable and has made them priority targets for the United States.

Almost a year after these announcements, reports have begun to emerge about the relocation of clandestine laboratories that produce this deadly synthetic drug.

Katarina Szulc, an independent journalist, has revealed that Canada has become the new ground zero for fentanyl production thanks to the infiltration of Mexican cartels, specifically the Sinaloa Cartel.

Sinaloan Labs in Canada

Large-scale raids on clandestine laboratories are becoming more common in Canada. A recent intervention in Drummondville, Quebec, resulted in the seizure of hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills containing potent synthetic opioids.

Szulc says the Sinaloa Cartel has sent its operators into Canada, in states neighbouring the United States, thus increasing the efficiency of trafficking and production. “They send people from Sinaloa to Canada, close to the American states that the cartel is trying to reach. That makes trafficking easier and closer,” he said.

For the past five years, members of the Sinaloa Cartel, particularly Los Chapitos, have settled on Canada’s west coast to run laboratories and large drug trafficking operations . Katarina Szulc recalls: “The Mexican cartels have completely infiltrated the Canadian drug trade without having to cross any borders.”

Former CBC contributor Katarina Szulc explains that the Mexican diaspora in Vancouver is increasingly evident, pointing to their lifelong residence in that city. Despite the presence and activity of local gangs such as Brothers Keepers, Red Scorpion and Hells Angels, the influence of Mexican cartels had been underestimated until now.

Local Asian drug traffickers also play a significant role in this fentanyl production and trafficking chain.
Katarina Szulc says that these suppliers , mainly of Chinese and Vietnamese descent, “help obtain the precursors, bringing them from Asia and supplying them to the laboratories run by the Mexican cartels to produce fentanyl.”

“I have been working here for 4 years: I pick up the things, when they send them to me I check that everything is okay, I am a distributor so to speak, I don’t sell retail, only wholesale. The issue is getting a little dangerous because they are making pills here and now and that attracts more government. They sent people from Sinaloa to do it here, closer to the states they want to reach and the Asians get the chemicals here,” said one of the drug lab operators in an interview.

The shift began roughly in 2019. In May of that year, the Chinese government listed fentanyl as a controlled substance and imposed more regulations on its production and export.

"It is believed this may have prompted the shift from fentanyl and fentanyl analogues being imported into Canada illegally toward domestic production in Canada," the Health Canada briefing note reads.

"It is widely believed that excess product is being exported to lucrative international markets," the note reads.

In 2022, Australian border officials seized 11 kilograms of fentanyl believed to have originated in Canada. Since the start of 2021, U.S. border officials have seized roughly 25 kilograms of fentanyl coming in from the northern border, a relatively small amount compared to seizures on the southern U.S. border.

California Lab Bust

The Buena Park Police Department’s Community Impact Team was investigating a suspected drug manufacturing and sales operation Wednesday when they came upon the lab in the 10600 block of Ellis Street in Fountain Valley. The lab was inside a warehouse.

While they knew there might be something at the location, the size of the operation surprised police. “I don’t think they realized it was going to be this big,” said Sgt. Jon Shaddow of the Buena Park Police Department.


Shaddow said it was the biggest drug lab takedown in recent history for the department. The lab contained about 300,000 pills suspected to be fentanyl, the department said. Other drugs and machines used to make drugs were also found.


Photos released by the Police Department showed Ziploc bags full of orange pills, as well as other bags filled with turquoise and white pills.


The department called in the Orange County Environmental Health Hazardous Materials Team to help them deal with the deadly drugs.

Police arrested the 26-year-old, though they did not release his name, citing the ongoing investigation.

Sources InfobaeCBCLA Times

66 comments:

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    1. Legalize it seriously it's tsunami flooded regardless and it's illegal no difference it will not stop drug use but atleast regulated plus quality will be pure and price will drop fiends don't have to spend an arm a leg or suck n fuck the plug anymore. It's illegal and the availability is unbelievable every variety of drugs and any amount you can literally get anything and it's like Amazon delivery to your address or pick up like Chinese take out you don't even need the dark web.

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    2. It's been legal for medical purposes.

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    3. It'll never be legal. This is population control. And things will only get much worse.

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    4. I thought Oregon legalized it.

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    5. It is legal, with an prescription and provided by an actual pharmaceutical brand.

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    6. 9:37
      Three substantively disconnected sentences. Most people that try drugs don't get hooked so "population control" can't be it.

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  2. Hells angels gabacho bike club does a lot of business with CJNG cells out in Oakland cali bay area where they have their main clubhouse. Also hella mini labs ran by NF norteños down the road in modesto ..salinas.

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    1. Yup exactly, hells working those freeways.

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    2. That is not true 81 sources from whoever they can

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    3. Bullshit news you have no idea

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    4. Would you smash Sheinbaum?

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    5. Not even sure if dry snitching or straight snitching? 🧐

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    6. 6:03 let’s ask the Gilbertonas ,they are experts in this topic.


      RIP Gilbertona

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  3. Szulc has no hard evidence Chapitos are involved, its like blaming USA for killing Palastine citizens, USA makes and gives the bombs free to Israel, but its Israel deploys them.

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    1. Well in all do honesty, they might as well blame US…

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    2. The USA # 1 consumer of all kinds of drugs , # 1 weapons dealers and # 1 organization in the world that prints money ( millions ) daily . Dont forget 3 wallstreet trust funds own everything and can do what ever they want in da world.

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  4. Fentanyl labs been in Vancouver for quite some time. I wouldn't count out local groups they are pretty scummy.

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    1. Really? I always thought Canada was getting finished product straight from the ports (and 🇨🇳)?

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    2. No 600 quick google search will tell your otherwise the people doing the labs are white trash

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  5. The idea that Sinalo are the only people who can cook Fentanyl is Ludicrous there is plenty of Chinese Vietnamese and Indian chemists not to mention whitey

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    1. You would be surprised the taste always counts chefs final touch always leaves a signature that can’t be replicated and Sinaloa has the best chefs so far they supply every other cartel in Mexico with their famous heroin and meth they rarely need money from the states

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    2. 1144 Chinese taught them how to cook smart guy nothing special about Sinaloa's cooks they were taught by the Chinese

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    3. The real shit used to be around 8-10 years ago and was made by yes, Chinese or local Mr Whites… it would look like meth because it wa so pure and people would buy it by the POINT (not gram).

      This shits garbage today.

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    4. fetty is dumb stupid easy to manufacture when you get the raw materials from china you basically boil something then add more stuff to it and stir. Voila Fetty.

      Meth on the other hand takes a lot of chemicals and specialized reactors and equipment but fetty can be made anywhere there is a place to boil water.

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    5. 9:49 not even close, yes they are the ones cooking the most, but they do a shitty job, why do you think most of the OD's trase back to them? Every Cartel makes them, but they take a little bit more care to no fuck up, but CDS they straight up dont care, just like they dont care if you call them Snitches or Gilbertonas, cause we all know that's what they are 🤟

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    6. @253 — good luck getting those chems dumbass… you actually have it the complete other way around these days…

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    7. @7:39, 253 is right I'm a chemist myself all the chemicals can be synthesized with household chemicals. Don't talk if you don't know electrons and bonds

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  6. Mexico needs 6 more years of ALMO.

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    1. Yikes. ELMO was insufferable.

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    2. This women president just won't be same

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    3. More like negative six years of AimLow.

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  7. Best place in the world to manufacture and traffic drugs. Laws are so weak hear that you’re guaranteed to get a slap on the wrist or a very short sentence.

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    1. I embarrassed to say this but 1119 is probably right. Asians who source chemicals for Mexican cartels love Canada specifically Vancouver

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  8. I told you all several months ago about fentanyl manufacturing in Canada and California. It is so extremely easy to manufacture. The original fetty manufacturing wasn’t even done by Chapitos originally it was just made in Canada and US or China. Guzmans saw how profitable it was and copied trends like making fake heroin and fake pain pills.

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    1. Old news champ.

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    2. Shut up stupid, you’re probably in Wisconsin or North Dakota.

      Nuffsaid

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    3. Yes, its the Curtis Allen Olson group in Vancouver, B.C., Calgary, Alberta, and North Dakota, makin Fentanyl, Meth, and importing H from Afghanistan and Coke directly from Colombia. Sells to all the biker gangs, asian triads, white supremacists, and italian mafia.

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    4. 1153 Makes no sense buying from Colombia when your closer to Mexico. Mexicans buy in bulk and store in Mexico. They supply the North American market.

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  9. Hahahaja "moving". They have always been there since years ago

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  10. This is all trumps fault

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  11. Connor chill on the fentanilo. Word on the streets is that you smashed Feinbaum whole ALMO watched.

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  12. Hopefully it’s produced locally so it stays out the Cocaine supply. So many people dying doing coke that was cross contaminated w fent

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  13. Drugs addicts can't get enough😅🤣😂🤣

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  14. Hell, make a few of them inside a small fleet of tour buses… no one would ever suspect a thing

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  15. Armenians in Southern California have been producing Fentanyl for a good while already. It’s a closed circle of friends and a win win situation for Mexican cartels who trade it for other substances like meth.

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    1. The chaldean iraqis too, san diego.

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    2. Umm… so a small “circled group of friends” in Southern California is making enough fentanyl that the cartels need them as a supply?

      Lmao

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  16. Two Arizona women were killed when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexican state of Sonora Friday morning, Mexican authorities said. - https://www.aol.com/2-u-citizens-killed-armed-022900777.html

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    1. They were on the road from Sonoyta to Caborca. We were hijacked and robbed on that road by carteo operatives. Better to go to puerto peñasco and from there to caborca. Oh right on.

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    2. I cannot find the answer to this anywhere. I have bad arthritis. Tramadol and Hydrocodone help. I dont have a prescripción from a US doctor. If a farmacia in México say in progresso will sell 30 pills of either or even if i have a receta from a mexican doctor, can i bring back 30 pills to usa if i declare it at the frontera?

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    3. 7:09
      Certain controlled drugs, customs takes away.

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    4. @709 — for 30 don’t even bother declaring it.

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    5. @709 — careful tho… unless you are going through a major chain farmacia, who has a doc signing your scripts, you will likely end up with fakes that either have fent or nothing at all

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    6. If you have prescription from Mexican doctor and you declare the tramadol when you cross, you're good to go.

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    7. 8.20 thank you friend.

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  17. most of them are Dutch not Mexicano

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  18. As soon as I read fentanyl was being made in Canada I knew it would be coming to Australia. Sure enough further on in article I read 25kg of fentanyl came to Australia. The criminal links between Canada and Australia run deep. Established in the 70’s with triad heroin trade.

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  19. Months before the US swore out warrants for the Corrales brothers a policy suggestion was circulated among all factions of the Sinaloa federation to avoid the US using the pretext of the fentanyl threat to send troops into Mexico. The failed kidnap attempt of Quintero which resulted in 'one Blackhawk down' and 14 US special forces mercenaries being destroyed can be directly tied to Mayo's kidnapping. Even those directly in communication with Chapito and Mayitos only see a fraction of the geo-political wranglings. 0618611F-1B93-409E-95D4-4EFB0502C94F.jpg

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