Carfentanil has been confirmed for the first time in Victoria after VicPD officers discovered it using a drug processing room that opened just last week.
The potentially deadly drug was found in heroin seized by West Shore RCMP in Langford on Aug. 2. Officers arrested two men following a vehicle stop in the 1000-block of Goldstream Avenue. Fentanyl was found in both a half kilogram of cocaine and an amount of methamphetamine seized, along with cash, brass knuckles and marijuana.
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There were more than 900 overdose deaths in B.C. last year, and fentanyl played a part in many of them. But this is the first time carfentanil has been found in Greater Victoria, although police suspected it was already here.
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Horst Francisco Schimer, one of the two men taken into custody, faces drug-related charges and charges for breaching court-ordered conditions, which include not possessing weapons or drugs, and being under house arrest. No charges have yet been sworn against the second person.
