All eyes were on the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office this past Monday, September 19, 2022, after law enforcement officials stumbled across one of the biggest drug busts of the year. What was initially supposed to be a routine residential search warrant operation, granted by the JSO Narcotics Unit, swiftly turned into the unexpected discovery of a total of 1.26 kilos of cocaine, three kilos of pure fentanyl, and over 6,000 falsified pills laced with fentanyl; enough lethal fentanyl to easily kill approximately 1.5 million people, according to police documents.
“As if those numbers are not staggering enough, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], the three kilos of fentanyl seized is enough to kill up to 1.5 MILLION people,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted to their Facebook account. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a statement expressing their own observations and concerns about the heap findings during the shocking breakthrough in Jacksonville, Florida – “Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine… The pills alone could kill 2,500 adults.”
With this particular acquisition transparently being on the list as one of Florida’s larger drug-related pick-ups, this seizure is just one of the many encounters that the JSO and DEA have come across in the Florida area. In fact, official reports have recently confirmed at least two high-profile fentanyl cases within just last week alone: A small bag of fentanyl was taken from a student in the bathroom of a high school in Port Orange, along with a separate adult male getting arrested after deputies found him in possession of roughly 219 grams of fentanyl; agents estimate that the combined total has the potential to unknowingly put down over 100,000 people.