Feds seize 10 million doses of illegal drugs, including pills designed to look like heart-shaped candy, in Massachusetts

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Source: CBS News

November 6, 2023 / 11:40 PM EST


Law enforcement seized 220 pounds of illegal substances worth an estimated $8 million in street value in Massachusetts, the Justice Department announced Monday. According to court documents, the seized drugs included about 900,000 individual doses of powdered fentanyl and 20 pounds of pink, heart-shaped pills resembling a popular Valentine's Day candy that allegedly contained fentanyl and methamphetamine.

On July 5, officials started investigating an overdose death in Salem, Massachusetts. They used the victim's Snapchat account to contact an individual about purchasing more pills, which led to an additional three months of surveillance investigation. Law enforcement earlier this month arrested three men — Emilio Garcia, 25, Emilio Garcia, 33, and Deiby Felix, 40 — allegedly connected to a large-scale drug trafficking organization in the area.

The men were charged with various crimes related to their alleged possession and distribution of illegal drugs. According to court papers, "multiple children" lived in the apartments on the first and second floors of the residence in which the lethal substances were allegedly stored. According to charging documents, law enforcement found drug mixing, distribution tools and three loaded firearms inside the basement of the home during a court-authorized search on Nov. 1.

"This is believed to be one of the largest single-location seizures of fentanyl and methamphetamine in the history of New England," investigators said in court papers. In written statements, Attorney General Merrick Garland called the use of heart-shaped drugs "depraved," while FBI Director Christopher Wray said they posed "an enormous risk to children."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fentanyl-heart-shaped-pills-seized-massachusetts/

[Blues Heron]

1. The scary thing about Fenatanyl is that it is so powerful the dose is measured in micrograms

500 micrograms is a serious dose, which is half a miligram. That means a gram is 2000 doses, and a pound is about 1,000,000 doses. They grabbed the equivalent of a pound of fentanyl here (plus all the other stuff- meth etc. ) No wonder the cartels love the stuff.

[Scruffy1]

2. You just described why we need a new approach.

I don't have an answer, but I have been reading articles like this for 60 plus years and the drugs are still here.

[justaprogressive]

3. Stopping the flow of Fentanyl

is not POSSIBLE!

The amounts needed are so small they slip through a net designed for cocaine and marijuana.

Fix the unhoused problem , and the healthcare problem, and our society is halfway home.

[Chainfire]

4. Good! Get them off the streets for a few years.

[rockfordfile]

5. Emilio Garcia, 25, Emilio Garcia, 33, and Deiby Felix, 40 were arrested

What two Emilios? That's like Daryl and Darryl from the Newhart show.

[sadasfyed]

6. fentynl is coming through eastern ports

into russian mob hands, how about eliminating all russian mobs on the east coast, they are the big drug problem in this country

[oldsoftie]

7. This is an attack on the US by China. No other way to look at it.

They KNOW what its doing & they do nothing to stop it. Most fentanyl comes from China.