Two California Highway Patrol traffic stops in California's Central Valley last week yielded drug busts totaling $4.2 million worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine, authorities said Wednesday.
Seven people were arrested in the two drug busts on April 25 and April 27, which followed CHP units making traffic stops on State Route 99 and Interstate Highway 5 respectively, the CHP said during a press conference in Merced.
On April 27, another CHP K-9 unit stopped another vehicle on Interstate 5, and during a consent search of the vehicle the officer found 15 pounds of fentanyl in the rear passenger floorboards. While waiting for investigators with the Merced Area Gang and Narcotic Enforcement Team to arrive at the scene, the driver fled from the scene on foot.
Attorney General Bonta said aside from leading the state Department of Justice's efforts to eradicate the fentanyl scourge, he sees the impact of fentanyl on communities through the eyes of a husband and father of three children. Merced County District Attorney Nicole Silveira said fentanyl overdose deaths in the county are beginning to approach the number of homicide deaths.
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