Largest Fentanyl bust ever goes down in Martin County
On December 28, Florida’s Martin County Sheriff’s Office announced that their deputies intercepted and confiscated 10,000 freshly pressed fentanyl pills with a street value of $300,000 – before those pills hit the streets in southern Florida. What the sheriff’s office described as “the largest Fentanyl bust in Martin County’s history,” went down on Wednesday.
The apprehensions and seizure happened in the parking lot of a retail shopping plaza on Federal Highway.
Deputies arrested three men out of New York who brought the drugs in to Florida, And the Sheriff firmly believe the three are part of a larger drug trafficking organization. Jeffry Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ortiz, 3o, Yelson Daniel Alvarez-Ortiz, 26, and Carlos Antonio Almonte-Melo, 36, all of New York, were arrested and charged with trafficking in fentanyl, which carries a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison.
“When I walked up to that car and saw that bag, which turned out to be two-and-a-half pounds, I was absolutely flabbergasted,” Martin County Sheriff William D. Snyder said during a news conference Thursday. “Every one of those pills had the potential to kill who ever took them.” ~ WPTV
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The Sheriff went on to say that “the flow of mass death into our small town is real. We may never completely break the drug pipeline, but we will never tire in our efforts to disrupt it.”
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(Source and all images: BSO)
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