Half-Tonne of Opium Lands at a Troubled B.C. Port, and a Surrey Arrest Points to a Widening PRC-Mexico-Canadian Drug Pipeline

VANCOUVER — The container arrived carrying twenty industrial rolls of paper, and concealed inside ten of them was 520.6 kilograms of opium — the raw material of the Big Circle Boys’ heroin trade that drove Vancouver’s overdose deaths for decades, before fentanyl exploded in the Downtown Eastside around 2012.

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