Package containing meth, cellphones seized at Matsqui Institution
Guards at Abbotsford’s Matsqui Institution have stopped a package containing drugs and banned items from entering the prison.
According to officials, a screening on Oct. 1 alerted staff to a package sent to the facility containing crystal meth, tobacco, two cellphones and chargers, four USB keys and a sim card. Officials say the items collectively are valued at $73,000.
The Correctional Service of Canada, which oversees the medium-security prison, uses scanners and drug-detector dogs to search anything that comes and goes from its facilities to stop the smuggling of banned items.
Police are now investigating the seized package.
Man stabbed to death in Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood
Police are investigating after a man was stabbed to death early Thursday in Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood.
It happened just after midnight early Thursday at a home near Kingsway and Melbourne streets. Brian Mathew Clayton, 34, died from stab wounds while being taken to hospital.
Police arrested a 27-year-old woman in connection with the death. Police believe the woman and Clayton knew each other. The woman remains in custody. No charges have been announced.
Anyone with information about the stabbing or the individuals involved is asked to contact VPD’s homicide unit at 604-717-2500.
Coquitlam RCMP seek dashcam footage of serious motorcycle accident
Police are asking Coquitlam drivers with dashcam footage to help piece together what happened in a serious accident Wednesday.
At around 7:30 p.m on Wednesday, Coquitlam RCMP were called to Johnson Street and David Avenue where a black Hyundai and a motorcycle had collided.
The motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while the Hyundai driver remained at the scene and co-operated with police.
The area was closed to traffic for a short time as investigators reconstructed the collision.
Police are now asking anyone who witnessed the accident, or who may have dashcam footage of either the motorcycle or the black Hyundai leading up to the collision, to contact police at 604-945-1550 and quote File No. 2024-26149.
30 tonnes of chemicals seized in B.C. destined for drug production: RCMP
Mounties in B.C. say they’ve seized more than 30 tonnes of chemicals that investigators believe were to be used in the production of methamphetamine.
A statement says the Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response Team executed a search warrant on a rural property in Enderby, B.C., in the North Okanagan region, on Sept. 11, and found a Bobcat loader that was reported stolen in Kelowna in 2021, as well as the chemicals.
