METRO VANCOUVER -- At least two tenants are planning to move out of a Burnaby apartment building saying they no longer feel safe after dynamite and homemade explosives along with guns and drugs were discovered in a suite.

"The building is turning into trash," said Michael Saguri, who has lived on the 29th floor for seven months. He said he's seen "weird people going in and out and in and out."

The Internet marketer and software developer works from home, and from his vantage point, "I see everything," he said.

Whether he would be relocating because of the recent police drama, Saguri responded: "Oh yeah, I'm out of here in two days."

Saguri was one of many residents who were evacuated Monday night after RCMP officers executing a search warrant for drugs entered an empty condo unit on the 11th floor of the 39-storey building and found large amounts of cocaine, guns and money, as well as 10 sticks of dynamite and several small bombs.

The RCMP believe the unit was being used as a cocaine packaging and distribution centre, and on Tuesday, police were still searching for the man who lived in the unit.

"We haven't located him yet," Staff Sgt. Robert Marks said. "We don't know if he was the owner of the apartment or if he was renting, but we're continuing to investigate."

The dynamite sticks were crystallized and deemed an explosion risk, so officers evacuated the highrise apartment complex in the 4200-block of Grange Street around 8 p.m. as the RCMP's regional bomb unit dealt with the dynamite by burning it safely in Central Park.

Some residents were taken by bus to a nearby community centre, and others rented hotel rooms or stayed with family. They were permitted to re-enter their units around 11 p.m.

Vivian Shi, a student who has lived on the 11th floor for six months, said she had never actually seen anything unusual with her neighbours, but last winter an incident made her uneasy.

After midnight one night in November, she heard a loud bang and opened her apartment door to a smoke-filled hallway. The fire alarm went off, and she and other residents went down to the first-floor lobby. The fire department arrived, she said, but did not see police and never learned what had happened.

"It was a little strange," she said, adding she had just spoken with the building manager about moving out by the end of March. "It's not scary, when something happens like this, but I don't feel good. That's two times strange things."