Meth Lab in Kitsilano
CKNW is reporting that the Vancouver Police have busted a Meth lab at the corner of West 7th and Yew in Kits. What’s happening to our hood?
While emergency crews continue to dismantle a meth lab found in Kitsilano Thursday morning, Vancouver Police are reporting they’re finding more drug dens in unexpected places.
Inspector Dean Robinson, who heads up the Drug Squad, says the latest discovery was in an apartment building near the corner of 7th and Yew, "Its always alarming if there’s a lab like a meth lab or a clandestine lab because they are volatile. Right now, they are on the rise, not in an epidemic capacity, but we have found more this year than we found last year and the year before that."
Firefighters were initially investigating reports of white smoke, but became suspicious when they were refused entry to the suite. A man and woman are facing charges.
I am one of the tenants in the building, whom has been displaced by my LOVELY neighbour, Derek Taylor.
Taylor:
* known drug dealer
* criminal history from Ontario (drug dealing)
* has been living at 2225 W.7th Ave for 4½ years, much to the chagrin of other tenants.
* told FD members that he was “boiling potatos” yesterday morning.
He is a SLIMEBALL, whom should have been evicted long, long ago!
I was a long term tenant at another apartment building on W7th Ave, between Vine and Yew and always joked about the subject apartment building as “the crack house”. I met some great people living there and they had expressed concerns of some undesirable type residents when I mentioned my nickname for the structure.
I was since evicted by a new owner from my home on W7th for renovations to the building and increased the rent 60%.I miss the hood!
It is a great area to live in and 1 rotten apple should not taint the spirit of living in Kits! Building owners, it is in your best to do a back ground/criminal check! Your investment is at risk! Listen to your trusted tenants!
i am also a tenant here, lived right next door to derek.. i consistantly complained about the fact he was dealing etc out of the apt , finally had to move…landlords were well aware and turned a blind eye
I am also a tenant of the building and it’s not that the landlords turned a blind eye. They were working with undercover police to bust this lab for over 5 months and were doing everything the undercover policeman told them to.
RE: “They were working with undercover police to bust this lab for over 5 months and were doing everything the undercover policeman told them to.”
I’m sorry, but they were repeatedly told over the past 2½-3 years of Derek Taylor’s drug-dealing. Likewise, they were also told that Taylor had a history of criminal activity from Ontario. Five months of proactive cooperation is great, but Taylor’s “business” could have been cut short a LONG time ago had others’ information been regarded as seriously as it ought to have been!
When a tenant’s father heard Taylor doing a heroin & coke deal in the building’s alcove, the tenant’s father relayed the info. directly to the landlord … during the Holiday Season of 2004! If someone came to you, telling you of such a serious matter, and that person happened to be a former RCMP drug squad member, wouldn’t YOU sit-up and listen? A heroin & coke deal is just that. Not “just marijuana”!
Taylor performed major, ILLEGAL car repairs/restoration in the building’s alcove. It is ILLEGAL for such repairs to be done upon rental property. This occurred several times over the past 3 years: the mess, the exhaust fumes, the creepy factor of Taylor’s CONSTANT lurking in the alcove, blocking another tenant’s vehicle in many times, trekking motor oil onto the building’s carpets, noise, disturbing the sleep of tenants & the residents of OTHER neighbouring homes … he should have been turfed out on his ass a VERY, VERY long time ago! People complained, while others simply moved-out, as their complaints had no effect on the situation.
The landlords are GREAT, fantastic, kind people. I like them immensely, and am not attacking their character(s). However, Taylor’s mess & trouble could have been avoided had information & complaints from others been addressed from the get-go. For all the while that concerns weren’t addressed/swept under the carpet, A LOT of GOOD, DECENT PEOPLE COULD HAVE DIED because of scumbag Taylor’s dangerous “business”!!
Always nice to know that one’s neighbour kept a loaded .38, over $13,000 worth of meth, and toxic chemicals in his suite!