ALERT revealed more details in a multi-million dollar illegal steroid bust – including the names of the four individuals arrested and charged in connection to it.
Officials with ALERT said the lengthy investigation culminated on September 25, when investigators executed five search warrants in Edmonton – in three homes and two storage lockers.
Drugs seized are believed to have a value of $9.3 million – the largest seizure of its kind by a police agency in Canada.
Alert said 365,268 tablets, 10,583 vials, 124 kilograms of raw steroid powders, 1,250 kilograms of various raw powders, and 30 litres of drug precursors.
The investigation was targeted at Kirk Goodkey, 40 – it’s alleged he manufactured illegal steroids and distributed them across the country, shipping the drugs as far away as St. John’s, Newfoundland.
In addition, three of his associates: Parmjit Brar, 40, Jordan Quiring, 27 and Alexandria Edwards, 27 were also arrested. All four are facing charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking and proceeds of crime and ALERT said more charges are being contemplated.
In one of the homes searched in late September, located near an elementary school in northeast Edmonton, officers said they found a steroids manufacturing operation – with a pill press, powder mixer, two fume hoods, a spectrometer, glassware and beakers and a large amount of packaging materials inside.
Investigators also found nearly 100 barrels of unknown chemicals in one of the storage lockers – the Edmonton Fire Rescue Hazardous Materials team helped ALERT handle that seizure.
Officials said the investigation on Goodkey started in May, 2014.
This seizure breaks the previous record, when Quebec police seized more than 400,000 tablets from a home in Therese-De Blainville, north of Montreal in December 2008.
ALERT said all of the accused in this case, except for Goodkey, have been released on bail.
