Police in Canada say they have arrested six people and busted an organized crime ring believed to have produced tens of thousands of counterfeit candy bars and edibles that look like popular brand-name products.

The crackdown began earlier this month when federal police investigators from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Pacific Region executed search warrants at two dispensaries and five separate residences on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, on Oct. 3, according to a statement from the Royal Canadian Mounted. Police on Tuesday.

“These warrants were associated with an organized criminal group allegedly involved in the production and distribution of illicit drugs and contraband tobacco in Port Alberni and Nanaimo,” authorities said. “The dispensaries in question were Green Coast Dispensary in Port Alberni and Coastal Storm Dispensary located in Lantzville.”

Search warrants were also executed at a suspected storage site in Port Alberni, as well as an adjacent Coastal Storm Dispensary storage and manufacturing facility, including two modular trailers where edibles were produced, stored and distributed by cannabis, authorities said.

The list of seized items includes more than 120,000 edible cannabis products with packaging similar to chocolate bars, potato chips, nacho chips, honey and other candies, including more than 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) of psilocybin mushrooms, 1,740 psilocybin capsules, over 400 psilocybin. chocolate, candies and a multitude of other products with psilocybin, 2.2 kilograms of pressed cannabis resin, over 500 kilograms of cannabis buds, over 19 kilograms of shatter, over 5000 cannabis vape cartridges, cannabis honey counterfeit, five vehicles, two ATMs Containing cash, 164 master cases of contraband tobacco are estimated to equal 82,000 packs of cigarettes, more than $400,000 in cash and a rifle, police said.

“Although the contraband cannabis bars and chips looked like professionally manufactured, packaged and quality-controlled products, they were found to have been produced in extremely unsanitary and highly contaminated modular trailers,” RCMP authorities said. “A preliminary evaluation of the edibles also indicates that they were treated with unknown amounts of THC and likely cross-contaminated with other drugs and substances present in the trailers in which they were produced and packaged.”

Equally troubling, according to police, was that the counterfeit snacks had packaging claims of medicinal properties and dangerously high drug potency values, with many of the candy’s packaging labels claiming to be “100 times stronger than the products regulated by cannabis”.

“Given the highly contaminated and unsanitary conditions of the illegal drug production facility where these cannabis edibles were produced, it is possible that consumption of these products could result in serious health risks,” RCMP said. “We urge the public to exercise extreme caution if they already own or encounter such products in the future, especially as Halloween approaches.”

This investigation is ongoing and numerous drug related charges are being pursued.