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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office arrested two men, accused of carrying an magnitude of fentanyl that could termination much than 7 cardinal people.
Sheriff John Zanoni explained the caller arrests are a warning.
"We're trying to nonstop a connection to everyone successful our community, to the criminals, don't beryllium transporting this worldly done Fresno County. We're retired there. We're looking for you," helium said.
According to Sheriff Zanoni, the ample fig of drugs seized precocious are emblematic of ample cause trafficking operations.
"We've done immoderate probe connected these individuals. Their location addresses everything that we could travel up with, shows that they are residents and presently unrecorded successful the country of Sinaloa, Mexico," helium said. "We cognize present successful the Central Valley that the Sinaloa cartel is simply a cartel retired of Mexico that has a important interaction connected cause income and drugs present successful our Valley."
Fresno County Assistant District Attorney Steve Wright says some men are presently successful the Fresno County Jail.
"They've some been charged with possession for income of a controlled substance, namely fentanyl. And they were some charged with transporting fentanyl," Wright said. "The cause cartels proceed to alteration the mode they bash concern to enactment much wealth successful their pockets. They support changing what they're doing, ways to get crossed the border, ways to manufacture it. And instrumentality enforcement continues to accommodate and to effort to support up with the cartels and to forestall them from continuing to spew this poison."
Narcotics Specialist Bob Pennal explained 1 of the reasons wherefore fentanyl is truthful deadly is due to the fact that it tin beryllium laced with antithetic substances.
"You're buying marijuana, and it mightiness person fentanyl successful it. You bargain methamphetamine, it has fentanyl successful it. Everything has fentanyl successful it," Pennal said. "So, you’re not going retired to usage fentanyl to die, but you conscionable don’t know."
The information of taking a pill mixed with different cause is thing Pamela Smith knows each excessively well. Her lad passed distant successful 2016 aft taking a pill laced with fentanyl.
"Fentanyl is laced with heroin, meth, cocaine," she said. "That’s what my lad got ahold of. It was 1 pill, 1 pill that killed him. And that’s all it takes.”
In response, she started her own nonprofit that focuses connected bringing awareness to the dangers of fentanyl.
"I started my ain nonprofit. It's called 'Mothers successful Grief Support Group.' Every Monday, we person a grief enactment radical for moms that person mislaid their kid to substances by mode of Zoom. And then, I besides spell retired successful the assemblage and bash trainings connected the dangers of fentanyl to schools, and churches, and civic organizations, and businesses. And past I besides spell retired and be a batch of assemblage events and springiness distant Narcan for free," she explained. "I conscionable wanted to assistance others because losing a kid is the top symptom that anyone could suffer. And that’s why I bash what I do. I conscionable don’t want different household going done this."
Sheriff Zanoni explained assemblage acquisition is important, and thing everyone successful the Valley tin beryllium a portion of.
"We've done the intervention. We've done the prevention. We’ve done education," helium said. "The 3rd one, radical request to measurement up and assistance america retired due to the fact that this to me, is unacceptable that these drugs are coming successful present freely time successful and time out, poisoning our people, sidesplitting residents of Fresno County.”
