Posted on 02/04/2023 4:42:38 PM PST by algore
Deputies with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department seized nearly 100 pounds of drugs while arresting a man with a felony warrant in Tacoma, according to a media release.
On Thursday, Pierce County investigators assisted the FBI and Department of Corrections with the arrest of a man who was wanted for violating the conditions of his community custody.
Investigators had received a tip the man was not only staying in a motel in the 6800 block of Tacoma Mall Boulevard but was heavily armed and selling a large number of drugs.
After the man was spotted in a car in the motel parking lot, he was pinned in by the arrest team’s cars and arrested. Inside his car, they found a stolen handgun.
Department of Corrections officers checked on the three rooms the man rented, where they found 90 pounds of methamphetamine and five pounds of fentanyl powder.
According to the media release, the powder could have been used to make hundreds of thousands of pills.
Additionally, investigators found $19,000, four firearms, a silencer, assorted ammunition and magazines, 11 passports, and drug packaging material.
The 43-year-old man was booked into jail for unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and unlawful possession of a firearm
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Then why did you post this on Free Republic?
Is that even a one day supply in Tacoma?
Rival gang tipped the cops off?
“If anyone believes a word of article I have an old bridge in Tacoma for sale.
Then why did you post this on Free Republic?”
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I just wanted to post the cool old bridge video.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Then there’s that. :-)
When I saw the writer call suppressors “silencers,” I knew it was an “off” website.
Some people post articles and put a, “Barf alert” on it. Who want’s to read barfy BS articles? Don’t we all get enough BS in our daily lives?
Yes, we do get enough in our daily lives.
Hey, it’s Tacoma - the Compton of Washington state.
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