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RCMP officers were watching last April when Kyle Robert Bird allegedly made at least four drug deals while driving around Langley in his 2013 Jaguar XF.

They pulled the 32-year-old over on April 25 on 204 Street “after observing Mr. Bird engage in behaviour consistent with drug trafficking.”

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Now the B.C. director of civil forfeiture wants Bird’s luxury car forfeited as an “instrument of illegal activity.”

Bird has not yet been criminally charged, though the director filed a lawsuit against him this month saying the Langley man was “arrested for possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and trafficking.”

In the Jaguar, police found three cellphones, as well as keys to a residence and a Husky tool safe.

They seized the car and later executed a search warrant at Bird’s house, about 15 blocks away.

Inside the house, officers found 10 kilograms of MDMA or ecstasy, “separated into 10 bags, each weighing approximately one kilogram,” the director’s statement of claim says.