The Calgary Police Service’s Clandestine Lab Enforcement and Response (CLEAR) team is investigating a home in the community of Auburn Bay thought to be a fentanyl re-processing lab.
Officers were called to the 0-100 block of Autumn Terrace S.E. at around 6:15 p.m. on Sunday by a landlord who said he discovered drug paraphernalia and equipment in the home while visiting to perform an inspection.
“Large equipment, believed to be used in the manufacturing of drugs, was located inside the home,” police said in a Monday news release. “Investigators from the CPS Drug Unit are treating this case as a suspected fentanyl re-processing lab.”
Investigators said it’s expected it will take a few days to search and decontaminate the home, and several weeks before laboratory analysis will confirm which substances were being manufactured.
“It’s a little scary,” area resident Andrea Silva said. “There’s lots of kids. I mean, the kids all play outside.”
Police said there is no immediate public safety risk to homes in the surrounding area. However, some residents claimed they were initially told to close their windows as officers investigated.
“Apparently the police told the neighbours…to keep their windows closed, just because of the potential with the chemicals that were in the room, because I guess they didn’t know yet what was in there,” Andrea Silva said
– With files from Tracy Nagai