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One of the Lower Mainland’s newer gangs is now operating on Vancouver Island.

Two people linked to the Brothers Keepers were arrested in Victoria earlier this month after police say they set up drug lines there.

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So far, Victoria police haven’t released the names of the two people arrested. The man and woman have been released pending additional investigation.

In a news release Friday, police in the capital said the Victoria police’s crime-reduction unit spent a month investigating the suspects because of their ties to organized crime.

On May 15, officers executed a search warrant at a house in the 200-block of Battleford Avenue and arrested the two suspects. Police also seized fentanyl, cocaine, almost $15,000 in cash and two vehicles that investigators are recommending for civil forfeiture.

Sgt. Brenda Winpenny of the anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit said the Brothers Keepers are still based in the Lower Mainland, but “they definitely have got ties on the Island.”