B.C. RCMP tout 10-year prison sentence for ‘primary target’ in drug lab investigation

RICHMOND — A 10-year prison sentence has been handed to a man police say led a crime group that operated “large-scale methamphetamine labs” in Richmond, B.C.

RCMP say it’s the end result of a years-long investigation into a group operating the labs, including Kim World Huang, who lived at one of the locations, and appeared on police radar after a series of house fires in the city prompted the investigation.

Mounties say in a statement that firefighters were called to homes between 2018 and 2020 and found the labs, which police came to believe were run by an “organized crime group” in the city.

RCMP say labs were found in three homes in 2020, where officers seized “significant quantities” of drugs, precursor chemicals, guns, cash and drug production equipment.

Police say a suspected cook at one of the sites died from exposure to chemicals, and Huang’s accomplices have also been prosecuted, but his girlfriend Yung Grace Wang is at large and is wanted on an outstanding warrant.

Mounties say the rash of house fires ended after the group was taken down.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25, 2026.

The Canadian Press