Brandon Nandan, 28, faces 13 more years in jail after receiving credit for two years of time served
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A 28-year-old man has been found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison after a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder.
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Brandon Nandan of Surrey was charged with 17 criminal offenses following an undercover operation into an alleged trafficking ring after a murder conspiracy was uncovered.
The BC Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU BC) worked with the Surrey and Burnaby RCMP on the operation which began in late 2020. Nandan became the key suspect in the plot to commit murder.
At the time, police issued a public safety warning that the network was trafficking potentially lethal drugs in the Lower Mainland.
Search warrants in Metro Vancouver in December 2020 led to the seizure of a kilogram of fentanyl, the main culprit in British Columbia’s overdose epidemic, as well as a kilogram of methamphetamine, a kilogram of cocaine and various weapons, including two firearm suppressors.
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Nandan was found at one of the search places and arrested. He was charged in March 2021 with one count of conspiracy to commit murder with a firearm and one count of attorney to commit murder along with a long list of drug and firearm related offenses.
On Wednesday, Nandan pleaded guilty to a series of charges, ranging from trafficking in fentanyl to possession of weapons and advising a person to commit a crime by firing a weapon with intent to endanger life, although the latter offense was not led to an actual shootout.
Nandan’s 15-year sentence means he will be in jail for just under 13 more years, as he was credited with two years plus one week of time served.
Nandan was previously sentenced along with another man to five years in prison for manslaughter in the 2011 drug-related murder of Burnaby’s Branson Sanders. Nandan was 19 at the time.
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“As a provincial anti-gang agency, CFSEU BC continues to proactively target individuals linked to violent gang activity and opiate trafficking that too often victimizes the most vulnerable in our communities,” the Superintendent said. Duncan Pound in a statement about the sentence.
Pound said the investigation succeeded in “thwarting a murder plot, disrupting other violent acts that would have endangered innocent lives, and preventing additional opioid-related deaths.”
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