Edmonton Police said a large drug trafficking operation had been dismantled, and tens of thousands of fentanyl pills seized from a house in Edmonton.

Police said back in March, 2017, the investigation started into a group that was believed to be trafficking large amounts of illegal drugs.

Then, on Wednesday, July 5, officers with the Edmonton Drug and Gang Enforcement (EDGE) Unit executed a search warrant at an Edmonton home, seizing 67,000 fentanyl pills, valued at about $2 million.

Plus, three more search warrants were executed at Edmonton homes, and a fourth was executed in Sturgeon County – with the help of the RCMP Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response (CLEAR) Team.

In the Sturgeon County home, police found a fentanyl pill processing lab. That home has since been deemed ‘unfit for human habitation’ by Alberta Health Services.

“I was very concerned when I, when we entered the house and saw the scale and the size of the production that they had,” Cst. Jason Wells with the CLEAR Team said Friday.

“My colleagues across the country with Clandestine Lab Teams have never seen it before.”

Investigators also seized a variety of other drugs and drug paraphernalia including: 2.4 kg of cocaine (estimated value of $129,000), 1.8 kg of methamphetamine (valued at $52,000), 834 one gram packages of cannabis extract (also known as shatter) with an estimated value of $58,000, a total of 130,000 fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of $3.9 million, 4 ounces of carfentanil (estimated value of $14,000), 658 grams of fentanyl-laced powder, with an estimated value of $115,000, and about 100 kilograms of buffing agents.

Police also seized more than $1 million in Canadian currency, four large cement mixers, two pill presses, and a 2001 Ford F-150 with a hidden compartment.

EPS said the presses were capable of pressing out 5,000 pills an hour, each. It’s believed the cement mixers were used to mix the powders before they were pressed into pills.

It’s not clear if the drugs were meant to be sold in the Edmonton-area or if they could have been taken to other parts of Alberta and B.C.

With files from Angela Jung