Tammi's Terrific Dawgs turned into Tammi's Terrible Drugs: Food cart owner sentenced for trafficking fentanyl mixed with deadly benzos
28 months jail for Tammi Ann Wood who was selling meth, fentanyl, cocaine to manager of fake harm-reduction site
If you think hot dogs are bad for you, a local food cart owner was selling wieners in buns along with something infinitely more deadly: fentanyl mixed with naloxone-inhibiting benzos.
Tammi Ann Wood was a mid-level dealer who was selling deadly concotions of fentanyl mixed with etizolam, along with other drugs, to Scott Tonks, a drug dealer in charge of a fake supervised-consumption site two blocks from Chilliwack secondary and middle schools.
“[Chilliwack Union of Drug Users or CUDU] operated an unlicensed site not far from the Chilliwack Secondary School and publically held itself out as a harm reduction, supervised drug consumption site,” provincial court judge Michael Fantino said in Wood’s sentencing decision on June 16, 2025. “The police investigation revealed that CUDU’s operation was anything but that.”
Undercover officers were able to go into the facility, purchase illegal opioids and drug paraphernalia. They were able to leave with the drugs without having cnosumed them and with no supervision.
CUDU was essentially a retail toxic drug storefront pretending to be a safe-consumption site.
“CUDU’s operations were clearly antithetical to the harm reduction objectives of supervised consumption and safe supply,” Judge Fantino concluded.
Wood, 57, was sentenced to 28 months jail by Judge Fantino for her part in the drug trafficking operation.
Tonks was scheduled to be sentenced for fentanyl trafficking a year ago but was a no-show and has been on the lam ever since. Warrants were issued in Chilliwack provincial court for his co-accused Cynthia Jacqueline Duguay on May 6, 2024 and for Tonks in June 2024.
CUDU comes crashing down
Crown sought three years in jail for Wood while she wanted a conditional sentence order of two years less a day to be served in the community.
CUDU’s scheme came crashing down with undercover RCMP officers watched Tonks with Wood inside her car on March 18, 2021, in front of the CUDU site, which was on Yale Road between Fletcher and Victor streets.
Tonks then was arrested when he tried to sell fentanyl mixed with etizolam to an undercover officer.
The next day, Wood was arrested while she was getting into her car. She was found with 188 grams of methamphetamine, 5.5 grams of fentanyl, 4.7 grams of a fentanyl-etizolam mixture, and 23.5 grams of cocaine.
“Some of the packages had corresponding notes and markings that I was told, and accept, correspond to the fentanyl’s purity percentage, or identify that the fentanyl was mixed with etizolam,” Judge Fantino said.
Wood also had $310 cash in a suitcase, score sheets and a baseball bat. In her purse was $1,810 cash, 1.8 grams of cocaine, more score sheets and a scale with residue of cocaine, fentanyl, benzodiazepine, and meth.
Her phone was seized and included text communications with someone identified as “Amber New,” texts that included information about mixing fentanyl with etizolam and other cutting agents to reduce production costs.
At her home, police found an Interac payment machine, invoices for Tammi’s Terrific Dawgs, a money counter, score sheets, and several scales with drug residue.
Inside her bedroom that had a reinforced door and in her laundry room was evidence of a drug lab.
Judge Fantino reiterated Crown’s position, not disputed by defence, that mixing fentanyl with benzodiazepines such as etizolam is particularly harmful because it counters the effects of naloxone (NARCAN).
“The tragic impact this poison has on the community is inescapable and it is often those who are most impoverished, marginalized and vulnerable that withstand the worst of this epidemic,” Judge Fantino said.
“It is nearly impossible to move about the downtown core of Chilliwack without witnessing someone in the throes of their opioid addiction: actually consuming, or having recently consumed illicit substances and existing in a catatonic-like state, folded in half. When they consume fentanyl, the user takes a significant risk as even a modest dose can result in death.”
In the pre-sentencing report, the court heard that Wood was married in the 1990s but the relationship ended and her husband obtained permanent custody of two daughters, now in their 30s. She had another relationship that ended because of domestic violence. A third relationship ended when her partner was the victim of a homicide.
After her arrest, Wood moved to Penticton where she lives with her niece and her niece’s children and where she operated the food truck.
She has not participated in any criminal behaviour since, the court heard.
In coming to the sentence, Judge Fantino said police had not proven that Wood was actually supplying the CUDU site, only that she was dealing drugs for profit.
As for Tonks, he is still wanted as of June 30, 2025. Scott Tonks is described as:
• Caucasian
• 5’9’’
• 194 lbs
• Dark blonde hair
• Blue eyes
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the Chilliwack RCMP at 604-792-4611. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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