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Three charged after drugs and $24K found at 4 homes, including one in Abbotsford

Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit started drug-trafficking investigation in 2020
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The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit executed search warrants at four homes in November 2020, including one in Abbotsford. Drugs and cash were found, and now three people have been charged. (CFSEU photo)

A woman and two men have been charged in relation to a drug-trafficking investigation that included a search warrant being executed at an Abbotsford home.

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – BC (CFSEU-BC) announced the charges Wednesday (May 23), saying that search warrants were executed in November 2020 at four residences. In addition to the bust in Abbotsford, two took place in Burnaby and one in Vancouver.

The press release stated that the investigation began in May 2020 into alleged drug trafficking involving several people in the Lower Mainland.

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The CFSEU said items seized as a result of the search warrants included about four kilograms of fentanyl, as well as smaller amounts of drugs such as heroin, carfentanil, ketamine, methamphetamine and MDMA. Fentanyl was mixed in with some of the other drugs, the CFSEU said.

Approximately $24,000 in cash was also seized.

Three Vancouver residents have been charged:

• Karina Marie Graham, 32 – three counts of drug trafficking and one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking;

• Leo Minh Trung Thach, 27 – four counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking; and

• Aaron Trung Thanh Nguyen, 40 – one count each of drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking.

The three were arrested and released on court-ordered conditions.



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The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit executed search warrants at four homes in November 2020, including one in Abbotsford. Drugs and cash were found, and now three people have been charged. (CFSEU photo)


Vikki Hopes

About the Author: Vikki Hopes

I have been a journalist for almost 40 years, and have been at the Abbotsford News since 1991.
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