'This is a Christmas present to these neighborhoods and believe me, it's probably better than any gift they're going to have,' the sheriff said.
Sunday, December 18, 2022 8:02PMFive warrants at five homes in one week uncovered deadly drugs and guns in what the sheriff's office calls 'Operation Blue Christmas.'Five warrants at five homes in one week uncovered deadly drugs and guns in what a Florida sheriff's office calls 'Operation Blue Christmas.'
Sheriff Simmons said his investigators recovered meth, crack cocaine, powder cocaine and marijuana. They also found blue methamphetamine pills laced with fentanyl, as well as bricks of fentanyl itself. Those findings come as no surprise in Escambia County, where fentanyl overdoses increased by 80% in 2021, killing nearly 300 people.
Deputies found most of that fentanyl inside one home, risked the life of a 4-month-old, Sheriff Simmons said.
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