Police say a 23-year-old driver told officers he was no longer involved in the drug trade before a search of his car turned up a hidden compartment and 123 baggies of crack cocaine, powder cocaine, fentanyl and heroin, along with a large wad of cash.
At about 8 p.m. on Monday, the man blew through a red light at Kincaid Street and Smith Avenue directly in front of two police officers in an unmarked police vehicle, according Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Mike Kalanj.
He said one of the Mounties ran the licence plate and saw the same Toyota Camry – which police later determined was registered to the driver’s dad – had been involved in suspected drug-dealing activity a couple weeks earlier.
When the officers pulled the driver over, the man admitted he had once been involved in the drug trade but said he had given it up two years earlier, according to Kalanj.
But an officer who searched the vehicle spotted irregularities in the dash, Kalanj said, and the vehicle was towed and searched after police secured a warrant.
Investigators found a secret compartment in the dash containing the baggies of cocaine, fentanyl and heroin, and $830 in cash, according to Kalanj.
The driver was arrested along with his passenger, a 22-year-old woman, also from Vancouver.
Charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking are pending, Kalanj said.
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