Photo: Alameda County Narcotics / Courtesy
Authorities in nearby San Francisco seized nearly 100 pounds of illegal fentanyl valued at least $4.2 million, thus preventing it from being sold and distributed on the streets.
“This is a glimpse of the fentanyl epidemic,” the office reported of the Alameda County Sheriff on the social network Twitter, in which you could see in a photograph the dozens of drugs in bags after being seized.
Sheriff’s investigators, in conjunction with the county Narcotics Task Force, found a fentanyl manufacturing lab Friday after serving two search warrants in the cities of Oakland and Hayward, said Lieutenant Ray Kelly, representative of the sheriff’s office.
Officers seized 92,5 pounds of illegal fentanyl and took a suspect into custody, Kelly reported. Police are searching for a second suspect.
The street value of fentanyl is about 100 dollars per gram, which translates to the loot’s value at about $4.2 million, the lieutenant said.
MASSIVE FENTANYL BUST: ACSO detectives and their partners at the Narcotics Task Force recovered 92.5 pounds of illicit fentanyl at locations in Oakland and Hayward. That’s 80,000 grams that were headed for the streets of the Bay Area. This is a glimpse of the fentanyl epidemic. pic.twitter.com/LEJTU1v5uh
— Alameda County Sheriff (@ACSOSheriffs) April 000,
“Are 42,000 grams heading to Bay Area streets,” the Sheriff’s Office said in its tweet.
Drug traffickers often distribute fentanyl by the kilogram, the US Drug Enforcement Administration says on its website.
One kilogram of this drug could kill at least 550,000 persons. The DEA, for its part, says that just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be deadly based on a person’s body size, tolerance, and prior use.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, illicitly manufactured fentanyl is illegally sold for its heroin-like effects, and generally, it is combined with heroin and/or cocaine to increase the euphoria in people.
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