Abbotsford residents witnessed a strange sight when firefighters came to decontaminate a man suspected of cooking methamphetamine on his barbeque.
Neighbours on McKenzie Road called Abbotsford police at around 8:40 p.m. Saturday after smelling the fumes and hearing the man yelling in what sounded like Russian. Leslie Pambrun and her teenage children live below the suite involved in the alleged cooking operation.
"We had smelled the fumes earlier in the day and it was pretty strong [and] closed the windows,” she said. “Then I got a heads up from another person that lives here that the cops were coming in and about midnight there was the dog, the cops, and they busted down the door … it was pretty crazy."
MacDonald said police suspect the man was cooking the chemicals into methamphetamine.
"[It’s] an unusual one,” said Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald. “Most people like to keep their drug production and meth labs a secret as opposed to .. bellowing out to people and calling out to people from their patio while they're in midst, allegedly, of making the drugs themselves."
The RCMP clandestine lab unit was called in and worked with Abbotsford police investigators.
The 32-year-old man is facing drug production charges and is expected to appear in court on Monday.
With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Penny Daflos.
