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An Ohio woman was arrested for allegedly transporting a massive cache of fentanyl from the Grand Rapids area to metro Detroit.
An Ohio woman was arrested for allegedly transporting a massive cache of fentanyl from the Grand Rapids area to metro Detroit.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said investigators tracked the delivery of 20 kilograms of fentanyl, which is around 44 pounds, after developing intelligence during an ongoing investigation in Kent County.
On Wednesday, suspects believed to have connections to a Mexican cartel sent the woman to deliver to the Detroit area, according to the DEA news release.
Police from federal, state and local agencies stopped the vehicle in metro Detroit and seized approximately 20 kilograms of fentanyl and one firearm.
The woman from Ohio was taken into custody, but agents are not releasing her name due to the ongoing investigation. They also declined to share details about the Grand Rapids connection.
The DEA believes the fentanyl was made in Mexico. Drug cartels in Mexico, using chemicals mainly from China, are responsible for most fentanyl being trafficked in the United States, according to the DEA.
“The precursors (chemicals) are coming in from China mostly,” said Orville Greene, special agent in charge of the DEA’s Detroit field office. “From China, they go into Mexico, and in Mexico the precursors are processed into the finished product, powder or pill form, and then smuggled across the southwest border … Then, it gets shot out across the country from California, but also from Texas, Arizona, all along the western and southwest border.”
Greene, talking to News 8 by Zoom Friday morning, said the drugs are then transported via major highways throughout the United States, including interstates 94 and 75.
On March 7, Michigan State Police seized four kilos of fentanyl after a traffic stop on I-94 near Paw Paw.
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Good bust!
ReplyDeleteWho is actually buying this crap in bulk like that?
Both CDS and CJNG are in Grand Rapids. The DEA office in GR has some young hotshots in it that have proven themselves over the last decade or so to be quite capable. They have lost a lot of good sized loads transiting through GR. You would think they would have learned by now.
DeleteGood point Detroit (about not going thru GR) but their margin is highest margin product with immediate turnover into cash - so it’s a managed cost of business.
DeleteAnybody that can push that much quickly
DeleteDr. Detroit
DeleteIt's ok cartels are flooding USA with drugs. Many a persons over dosing and dying, they chose to use drugs.
I got approved to carry CCW, should anyone want to mess with me, like they say in Mexico, they will get Plata o Plomo. I will not be afraid to use it for self defense. Unfortunately in Mexico law abiding citizens don't have the opportunity to defend themselves.
@detroit damn cowboy, we’re you lead supervisory special agent on the case? Or maybe the CI junkie who snitched on CDS Chapitos’ fetty couriers??
DeleteYou always have the inside scoop, that’s all I’m saying.
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DeleteI am from Detroit and worked for the police in the Detroit area. I keep abreast of what is going.
7:17 You’re giving other people here brain damage. Please stop.
DeleteDetroit was definitely a Fed previously. Don’t underestimate that man!
DeleteLately there has been a lot of news about a drug called "Tranq"
ReplyDeletePeople are actually using animal tranquilizers to get high. In Boston Massachusetts there seems to be a great problem with it.
Is this drug also something the Cartels are involved in?
Mica posted an article about that early this week about it.
DeleteI can't believe how the drugs keep coming from Mexico. All of USA is flooded with them.
That drug been around for a while. Its been on national gepgraphic documentaries years back.
DeleteTranq has been around since the 70s. Old news.
Delete4:09 may be old news for you pops, but it's coming back full force, more people going to look like zombies.
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DeleteI wasn't old enough in the 70s to know anything about drugs but I used to work in drug treatment and some of the older folks told me they used animal tranquilizer in the 70s and 80s. It was in full force back then but it wouldn't make the news.
05:47 it’s like fashion everything goes in a circle and the millennials haven’t tried it yet so, it’s important to spread awareness.
DeleteI heard that people in the 70s used real heroin not mixed/laced with synthetics and cow tranquilizer. Maybe you had tranq then but it wasn’t the norm on the streets, I know because I used to know someone who knew someone who died from doing time for Pablo & Medellin / Cartagena. Back then Colombian heroin and heroin from Southeast Asia ruled the streets. The mafias and blacks controlled heroin and sold drugs with style, unlike the current generation of degenerates running around with kilos of shitty dope — trying to be a tough gangsta snitch.
4:09 If you think it was even a remotely common cutting agent in the 70s for heroin you should lay off the crack jack
Delete7:10 bro that “animal tranquilizer” could’ve just been ketamine for all you know.. Full force in the 70s? Fuck outta here
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DeleteWhen did I say it was a cutting agent?
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It was NOT *katemine. It was animal tranquilizer and different kinds too. There's tons of drugs out there that you've never heard of so stop speculating "it could have been" - yeah it have been Mickey mouse too. Could have but it wasn't.
Fentanyl hasn’t really hit Australia, over here is meth (local made and imported), cocaine(from Mexico) and heroin (from Asia and Afghanistan). The only time I’ve seen fentanyl was a guy selling his medical fentanyl patches for $400 per patch (I turned it down, too expensive) The kind you get from a pharmacy. We have OxyContin (that are real, never fake fentanyl copy’s) I’m kind of wondering why fentanyl is not hitting our shores? We got the disposable cash and the demand (for opioids) but no one’s bringing it in, maybe it’s just a Chinese CCP plot to kill Americans without going to war.
ReplyDeleteThe Penttingill family was selling meth in the 80s.
DeleteBecause nobody wants fentanyl. Wtf kind of question is that? You have heroin and apparently “real OxyContin” and you’re wondering why fent isn’t hitting you guys? Think about it for like at least 10 seconds
DeleteDude count your lucky stars no fenties in kangaroo land.
DeleteVirtually everywhere has demand for opioids.. And you just said you had opioids in your country so… what’s the problem? You know fetty is significantly less euphoric right?
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