RCMP arrest 3 in 'dark web' drug trafficking investigation

Federal RCMP investigators announced Thursday that they had arrested three people in Nanaimo in connection to what they called a "year-long investigation into dark web drug trafficking." The arrests came on Feb. 4, when officers executed search warrants at two homes in Nanaimo. One warrant was executed at a residence in the 3900-block of Hammond Bay Road, where officers found and dismantled a gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) processing lab, according to an RCMP news release. Officers also found evide