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Calgary police have shuttered a sophisticated fentanyl lab in a suburban community that investigators believe is linked to a global network of organized criminals.

A Calgary husband and wife are facing five dozen charges linked to drug trafficking and production, firearms and currency counterfeiting after an investigation into a “dial-a-dope” operation led to a trove of illicit and deadly drugs and an ad hoc manufacturing facility capable of producing 120,000 fentanyl pills a day.

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The duo are also the first to be charged under new provincial legislation enacted last year that outlaws the ownership or use of unlicensed pill manufacturing equipment.

“This is more than just traditional organized crime, this is non-traditional organized crime, which fuels violence here in the city,” said Staff Sgt. Mark Hatchette with the police strategic enforcement unit.

“We are looking at our other national organized crime ties as well as international organized crime ties. I would consider this a mid-level bust — people that work for major organized criminal organizations across the world.”