Halifax police seize massive quantity of fentanyl and GHB

This is going to put a, not a full stop, but a very good dent into the fentanyl moving through old Halifax. Staff Sergeant Nick Pepler calls it the biggest seizure of its kind in Atlantic Canada. A table full of the stuff seized in the raid. 6.2 kilograms of fentanyl, along with 1,400 fentanyl pills and 10.5 liters of GHB. The date rape drug was displayed in nine plastic pop bottles, while the fentanyl was sealed inside a glass display case. To put this into perspective, the amount of fentanyl alone could potentially cause more than 3 million deaths. That's more than the entire population of Atlantic Canada. Pepler puts the bulk street value of the fentanyl at half a million dollars and the GHB at 5,000. He says this quantity of the date rape drug would be extremely dangerous in the community. A cap full of it, 2 to 5 millimeters, is basically the equivalent of having half a dozen beers. So that effect on, you know, a person could render them unconscious. Police also seized a Glock switch, a device that can turn a Glock handgun into an automatic weapon. Seeing a Glock switch here is extremely concerning. A fully automatic weapon on the street of Halifax is a concern for anybody in this room or anybody in the community. And I feel like that this seizure is unique and hopefully not a trend, but I guess further investigation. and searches will will tell us that. Police arrested three people at the Dartmouth address who are now facing trafficking charges but Pepler says police do not believe they were acting alone. He says organized crime was likely involved in bringing the drugs into the Halifax area but he wouldn't say exactly how the drugs might have been brought here saying that's part of an active investigation. Blair Rhodes, CBC News, Halifax.