After two targeted killings in Kamloops the lower mainland’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit’s gang team spent four days in the city seizing a shocking array of items.

CFSEU Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton says the Uniform Gang Enforcement Team stopped 78 vehicles and checked 132 people almost all of whom are believed to be involved in the street level drug trade in Kamloops.

“Our members seized a lot of weapons and a lot of instruments that could be used as weapons and a lot of drugs. Four sets of brass knuckles, a couple of spring loaded knives, machetes, axes, fix bladed knives, a couple cans of pepper spray including one that had a marker on it with instructions about how to spray what they call goose, which is in street talk police officers, four hatchets, nine folding knives, a little bit of ammunition, and one unique item we don’t see too often a lock picking kit.”

Houghton says they also seized $40,000 in cash, as well as cocaine, crystal meth, and deadly fentanyl.

“These incidents happen in our communities despite not just the police’s best efforts, and I can tell you that the Kamloops RCMP are doing yeoman’s work and engage with us regularly, but often the best efforts of communities results in these things still happening.”

On Wednesday January 23rd 41-year-old Rex Edward Gill and 31 year old Cody Marcel Mathieu were killed, in what police called targeted shootings, hours apart in different areas of Kamloops.