Update: Some of the labs busted were also making fentanyl.
Read the Ridge is reporting that "A man involved in a large-scale MDMA production operation at a rural Maple Ridge property has been sentenced to three years in prison. Christopher James Alves pleaded guilty to producing MDMA, possessing the drug for the purpose of trafficking and possessing substances for the purpose of producing a controlled substance."
"The offences occurred in 2022. In a Sept. 18 decision, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Terence Schultes accepted a joint sentencing submission from Crown and defence calling for three years in prison on the first two charges and two years on the third, with all sentences to be served concurrently."
A MDMA lab in Maple Ridge. Who do you think he was running it for? Damion Ryan in in the Haney chapter now. The decision has been posted on the BC Supreme Court website. In 2024 the RCMP referred to it as a drug superlab on one of four properties in the area searched. This was not a CFSEU bust.
I guess they're still making Molly. May 26 2026 the Indo Canadian News reported that "Federal Policing Pacific Region (FPPR) has dismantled an active fentanyl lab in Chilliwack and a large-scale MDMA (ecstasy) lab and pill press operation in Abbotsford following a months-long investigation." Federal Policing Pacific Region not the CFSEU.
Only three years? This guy deserves life behind bars with zero chance of parole.
ReplyDeleteThree years is low but life is high. Somewhere in between.
DeleteI would have preferred 5 years. they get a discount on the number of years they serve anyhow. Life is not reasonable. It also costs a lot of money to keep -people incarcerated and really it doesn't do much to reduce crime. When they sentence people to life and they have to stay in there for life, like in the u.s.a. all that happens is the prison system has a lot of old people with a lot of health care issues. It costs a lot of money. Our system works because its life without parole for 25 years then if there is no real threat to the community they get out. by that time many are too old to be a problem and most of their co horts have retired or died. there of course people who ought to not ever get out of jail and they are still there. Serial killers aren't going to reform.
DeleteAren’t all prison sentences 2/3 in jail the rest out and supervisory.?
ReplyDeleteYes. Statutory release is after two thirds of the sentence has been served making three years two.
DeleteIn the US hed likely have gotten 15 years
ReplyDeleteYes but the US isn't a good model of anything right now. Norway has the best prison model.
DeleteFentanyl ,Meth,and Crack are
ReplyDeletesociety killers . Large sentences need be applied . Molly and some low profile drugs perhaps not so much .BUT for large scale drug operations there should always be large fines and property confiscations as a deterent .