Nearly 100 pounds of illicit fentanyl is off the streets thanks to sheriff’s detectives and the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force, sheriff’s officials said Saturday.
The 92.5 pounds or 42,000 grams were recovered recently from locations in Oakland and Hayward.
Sheriff’s officials said the drug was headed for Bay Area streets.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, illicitly manufactured fentanyl is sold illegally for its heroin-like effects and is often combined with heroin and/or cocaine to increase euphoria.
Users often don’t know fentanyl has been combined with the other drug or drugs.
According to the CDC, most of the recent cases of harm, overdose and death due to fentanyl are linked to the illicit kind of the drug.
Did people get arrested? How did the drugs get into the country?
It’s a safe guess the fentanyl originated in China and reached the US through Mexico via a Mexican cartel.
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To put that in perspective, that is enough to kill everyone in the bay.
Darn.
I was really counting on that delivery.
One outlet’s story quotes a sheriff spokesperson as several arrests in several locations… Not identified to public yet investigation ongoing…
Haha … CIA has to do it all over again
And all this is flowing into the country through Joe & Kamala’s open border. The one that they keep saying is closed. Lies, lies!
more info here
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2022/04/23/major-alameda-county-fentanyl-bust-sheriff-seizes-more-than-92-pounds/
This is a very serious matter.
Addiction is running rampent in my own family – (and it is destroying people’s lives). Growing up in and around around the drug scene in San Francisco was bad enough.
We are in existential agony here in the San Francisco Bay Area – I believe this is due to the non stop MSM fear mongering (and stressful economic situations).
I deal with my pain by going on North Main street (to help homeless women living in their cars). Some of them I went to high school with – over 1/2 of my graduating class is dead (at under 60). These are women with jobs – (they just cannot afford rent). Drugs like Fentynal took a huge number of us out.
Churches (and New Age non-profit organizations) are withholding help – or sending money to “Ukraine” (because that’s what the Television programming is all about). I discovered by proxy – that the church (a parent is wrapped up in) was caught in a money laundering scam. I stopped it – as I have a background as an elder care advocate (and know enough coding to figure out a scam). I think it was an honest mistake.
I got my Opioid drug addicted family member on methadone – but it is touch and go – as she might start using again.
Members of own family have disowned me (because they didn’t like how I voted). I never did anything wrong. I was a straight A student, put myself, (my husband, and my daughter) through college – worked most of my life (at very difficult jobs – mostly information and referral which is advocacy for at risk individuals) – but I would surrender all of that for my family to recover from these drugs and stop with media mind control.
It reminds me of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” as these toxic narratives (pumped out by Main Stream Media 24/7) have done irreparable harm to my generation, and to my family and friends.
No wonder people are turning to drugs for relief from this pain.
I never liked Television – I understand “the machine” – and how AI is utilized to drive agendas. Even “social” media is not safe for honest discourse anymore.
I guess the plan is to get us to give up hope and disappear. Once our bank accounts are emptied by scammers and/or we fall into addiction – we are just useless eaters.
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer -but we need to step out of the shadows and pull ourselves together. We have to create our own family’s – (if ours won’t practice peace, love, and non judgement).
I thought that is what the 60’s were all about – I guess I was only dreaming.
@Clam Bake – I’m terribly sorry that mental illness, including addiction has so savagely ravaged your family and peers.
Reading that half your HS class passed away by 60 years old shocks the conscience. Would you be kind enough to share which high school you attended (or at least the city and state) as well as the approximate class year (eg, mid-1980s; late-1970s)?
God bless you for helping the down and out in our community. Be well.
I was a Transfer for Del Valle – which closed in 1979 – due to decling enrollment and “complaints” from Rosmoor (sp?) – Las Lomas High School Class of 1980. Look online – you will see. Now this could be an “issue” of us finding each other – but chatter among classmates is about 1/2 of us are gone. We think it is mostly accidents (cars, motorcycles, etc.) but we know and understand that drugs played a role in this. Yes – we partied hard – those were the days of “cruising the main” – and well you know which drug (I don’t want to get banned) I never fell for the drug scene – as I saw what it did to my family. Thanks for asking buddy!
Wow. You are really laying it all out there, regarding your life experience. Yes, the drug problem and situation here in the country is the one of country’s biggest terrorist threats, in my opinion. Look at what it’s costing all of us in regarding medical care needs, law enforcement, loss of life, and mostly, in destruction of families. Meanwhile, the government worries about things like ‘hair discrimination’. Thanks for the glimpse into our community families reality.
Fentanyl should be the execution drug. I’ve had it administered for a medical procedure and felt no pain. Hook up an IV, introduce enough to put them under, then add a lethal dose. All this controversy about potassium chloride and the rest would disappear and then the issue would simply be, “Do you favor the death penalty?” There’s a lot of scumbags who need to be put down.
Open boarders = drug & sex trafficking.
Darn Democrats
You seem to have forgotten the cocaine fueled 80’s, when Ronnie Raygun was president. He allowed Cuba to empty its jails and flood Florida with all kinds of lowlifes, thinking anyone who was leaving was an anti-Communist. Kinda backfired on the entire nation. Most politicians, left or right, are idiots not fit to lead.
Scary stuff, last year I had it in a medical setting. I was chattering like a magpie with the guy taking my vitals as the doctor behind me used what looked like a Black & Decker drill with a masonry bit drilling into my hip for a biopsy. I didn’t feel anything, absolutely nothing. The next morning my hip felt like someone whacked me with a 5 lb ball-peen hammer (the rounded end). I can see why people could get addicted so easily, it’s no wonder why the damn doctors today are hesitant to write a narcotic prescription for anyone, but that’s another “fish to fry”.
I wonder who’s putting out more fentanyl?
The Mexican cartel or Big Pharma?
@concerned Citizen….Huh?…. Really?
It’s literally the same picture.
A National Guardsman lost his life saving two illegal aliens crossing the Rio Grande. The illegal aliens, it turns out, were apparently trafficking narcotics. One news source cited that 11,000 pounds of fentanyl crossed the southern border in 2021.There are estimates that 4000 are crossing, per day (3000 encountered with estimated 1000 not encountered). A welcome invasion by an administration who has little to no regard for the American citizen.
Joe, Hunter and Komola got theirs, and more. That’s all they care about.
All thanks to Dopey Joe and Clueless Kimola; and also to their supporters.
I love how all you Left hating Right supporters act like this started coming into the country the day Joe Biden took office. I got news for you, the drugs have been flowing into the country for years regardless of who is in office. I don’t support Joe or Kamala, but I also realize this issue goes beyond the political arena. Open borders or not the drugs continue to flow.
@blame…we don’t “act” like this started with the current administration. We (at least most of us) are aware of the illegal alien invasion that has been going on for decades, with little adversity from either side of the aisle, except, in the last 30+ years, one President. What we are debating/commenting on is that today, there is a no-brakes-applied allowance for illegals to cross the border, invade our country, with it a significant increase of the drug fentanyl, the topic of the OP. You are correct, that drugs have been flowing into here for years, and again, most from that border touching CA, AZ and TX, and that is tremendous shame (not that you are correct, that the drugs are flowing….).