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A West Kelowna couple will be spending months apart as they await their next court date for charges related to production and possession of narcotics, including fentanyl.
Leslie John McCulloch, 38, and Rebekka Rae White, 27, were charged after police raided a West Kelowna warehouse on Auburn Road on March 2.
Dozens of police, along with paramedics and firefighters, raided the warehouse.
At that time, officer Dan Minkley said they had executed a warrant on the property in conjunction with a second warrant at a rural property in West Kelowna.
“This is the conclusion of a drug production investigation,” officer Dan Minkley said from the scene. “We have executed a search warrant at this location where we found drug production equipment – a clandestine lab.”
Minkley said the building was being used to make counterfeit prescription pills that contained fentanyl, an extremely strong opiate that has played a role in hundreds of deaths in B.C. in 2016 alone.
Police believe they were importing fentanyl from China to produce fake Percocet and OxyContin.
McCulloch was denied bail earlier this month and will remain in custody until the preliminary inquiry next year, scheduled for May 23-25, 2017.
White is currently out on bail until the preliminary inquiry.
As it stands, both McCulloch and White have elected to be tried by judge and jury.
