Emmanuel Pereira and Roxanne Savard pleaded guilty to being involved in the manufacture of methamphetamine at a major laboratory that was dismantled in June 2020 in Danville. Their jury trial will begin Monday at Sherbrooke courthouse.
With this confession of guilt, their trial, which is scheduled to last ten weeks, is avoided. Mr. Pereira faces a lengthy sentence because he pleaded guilty to other chargesexplanation of the criminal and penal prosecution lawyer, Émilie Baril-Côté.
In addition to its involvement in the manufacture of a substance used in the manufacture of pills speedEmmanuel Pereira also admitted his involvement in the cocaine cup that was also made there.
It is a large-scale methamphetamine-producing laboratory, if not one of the largest ever seen, that was dismantled in Danville in June 2020.
” For methamphetamine, it is one of the largest laboratories to be dismantled in Quebec. “
The Sûreté du Québec had previously seized 74 kilograms of methamphetamine from this warehouse on Castelbar Road. Each kilogram of this substance makes it possible to produce approximately 50,000 pills of speed. Methamphetamine was made in Danville before being brought in to make pills speed. Each pill sells for between $ 2 and $ 5. The market is very, very profitableargues Me Baril-Côté.
cup of cocaine
Police also seized one and a half kilograms of cocaine as well as empty bags that could contain 62 kilograms of cocaine. This suggests that all of this volume passed through the Danville laboratorysaid Me Baril-Côté.
All the equipment used to cut this ingredient, press it and prepackage it was also confiscated. It is rare to find cocaine labs. We arrived carrying a kilo of cocaine from imports, we cut it before repacking, then resold. A kilo of cocaine sells for about $ 30,000 to $ 35,000 per kilo, but during the pandemic the kilo reached $ 85,000.explanation of Me Baril-Côté.
Emmanuel Pereira has been incarcerated since legal proceedings began. The man, who has a criminal record, also pleaded guilty to a series of cases related to possession of firearms, some of which were banned and loaded, and received more than $ 100,000.
The police investigation
The account of the facts makes it possible to know that SQ this survey was opened in October 2019 as part of the Product project. Rotation, tracking, heat detectors, cameras, location; several investigative methods were used. Roxanne Savard and Emmanuel Pereira went to the laboratory several times during the police investigation.
The two defendants will receive their sentences on May 5.
Source: Radio-Canada