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1 Chilliwack house. 1 homicide. 2 suspected drug raids. And a neighbourhood totally on edge

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Drugs have been seized from the Chilliwack home where 28-year-old Cody Isaacson was shot to death in late January. As John Hua reports, this latest incident has only added to the growing frustration of neighbours who fear for their safety – Feb 23, 2018

There’s a grim history to the abandoned, yellow-trimmed bungalow at the intersection of Broadway Street and Cedar Avenue in Chilliwack.

And another chapter was added to that history on Feb. 15, when police executed a search warrant and found methamphetamines and drug trafficking paraphernalia inside.

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The home’s sordid history stretches back, at the earliest, to Jan. 16, when the RCMP searched it and allegedly seized opioids, methamphetamines, guns and ammunition.

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Then, on Jan. 31, the home became the subject of a homicide investigation when 28-year-old Cody Isaacson was killed there after a bullet came into the home beneath a windowsill.

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Isaacson’s mother said at the time that he would have been better off in jail than in that home.

“They’re caught with weapons and they’re just detained,” she said of suspected criminals.

Then the latest raid came — and the fear that alleged wrongdoers are back on the streets has not given much comfort to neighbours who are frightened, and who feel incidents like these are becoming “very normal in our lives.”

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“The criminal has more rights than the people that are having to deal with it,” said one neighbour who didn’t want to be identified.

Neighbours want the authorities to crack down on the Chilliwack property as a primary target.

They have a sympathetic ear in B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth.

“There are going to be stiff consequences including the potential of having that place seized as being used as proceeds of crime,” he told Global News.

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But that would require proof that the owners of the home are directly tied to the incidents that have unfolded there.

Neighbours want stricter laws so that suspected drug houses can be addressed sooner.

“If that means it’s the homeowners’ responsibility then so be it,” said one neighbour.

Unless something changes, it seems unlikely that their fears will be lifted anytime soon.

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