A 32-year-old Burnaby man was one of six people arrested as part of Project Talon – a Vancouver Police Department investigation into drug trafficking.
Officers from the Vancouver Police Department’s organized crime section led the yearlong investigation into a “violent drug supplier with gang affiliations, whose group preyed upon the marginalized residents of the Downtown Eastside,” stated a media release from Vancouver police.
The investigation began in October 2012 with police gathering information to support a number of search warrants needed to build the criminal case, stated the release.
On Feb. 19, more than 100 officers from the Vancouver Police Department, the Lower Mainland RCMP and B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit executed search warrants in Burnaby, Vancouver and Richmond. Officers searched seven homes, two vehicles and a storage locker, seizing a plethora of evidence, including two handguns, ammunition, more than $340,000 in cash, money counters, a home invasion kit, body armour, about 3 kilograms of cocaine and 1.5 kg of heroin, more than one-half a kg of other drugs, and more than 50 kg of cutting agent.
The investigation has now concluded and a number of charges have been approved, according to the release.
Burnaby resident Leo Wai Yee has been charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. He is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 10, 2014.
