His job as a rookie was to develop and nurture informants who had knowledge of the district’s drug traffickers. Although he had heard about the work that Inspector Don Adam’s task force was doing regarding the missing women, he had not concerned himself with Adam’s investigation—until he met Dwayne Scott Chubb, a thirtysomething heroin addict, a year later in the autumn of 2001. A longtime employee of the Picktons’, Chubb had worked intermittently for the two brothers, sometimes for the dump truck business and at other times for the topsoil business, from 1993 to 2001. In April 2000, following an assault outside a Coquitlam bar, Chubb sustained a head injury that required 160 stitches and, according to Chubb, had inadvertently led to his heroin problem. When his physician stopped prescribing morphine for his pain, he turned to heroin for the next few months. Afterward, he entered a methadone program for heroin addicts. During the period that he began talking to Wells, Chubb sometimes worked as a bagman of sorts for area drug dealers in which he picked up money for them.
