Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Investigators seize enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people in massive drug bust
cbsnews.com ^ | August 30, 2019 | no byline

Posted on 08/30/2019 3:16:18 PM PDT by ransomnote

Law enforcement officers in Virginia have seized enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people, busting a massive three-state drug ring as part of what they called "Operation Cookout." Thirty-five suspects were arrested, and four others are on the run.

"This opioid crisis is not an issue that is happening someplace else, or to someone else. It's happening right here in Norfolk," said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

In total, authorities seized over 30 kilograms of fentanyl, 30 kilograms of heroin, five kilograms of cocaine and over $700,000. It's the largest drug takedown in Virginia in 15 years. They also seized roughly 24 firearms, including an AK-47.

"We're not talking about $500 and $600 deals, we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars," Terwilliger said. "You know, $20,000 in the trunk of somebody's car in a gym bag, you know, behind a local restaurant."

Terwilliger said the bust spanned three states and that one of the 39 people charged ordered fentanyl from Shanghai and had it delivered to Virginia through the mail. MORE AT LINK

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: china; fentanyl; operationcookout; opiod; wod
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-51 next last

1 posted on 08/30/2019 3:16:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Every package from China should be opened and closely examined.

China would if they wanted to slow things.


2 posted on 08/30/2019 3:23:29 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Suggested disposal point: San Pelosish*tsco water supply.
Takes care of the Google problem, too.


3 posted on 08/30/2019 3:26:12 PM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Hopefully President Trump will use the opportunity to search each package and shipping container cominh from China.


4 posted on 08/30/2019 3:29:30 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Dump it on every well in Afghanistan.


5 posted on 08/30/2019 3:34:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Americans need to Boycott Chinese Fentanyl.


6 posted on 08/30/2019 3:34:54 PM PDT by Meatspace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

To be recycled via dea middleman back into the illicit market.


7 posted on 08/30/2019 3:35:28 PM PDT by grumpygresh
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Is this a new bust or the one from a week or so ago?


8 posted on 08/30/2019 3:35:55 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

This was China? All West Coast is Mexico.


9 posted on 08/30/2019 3:36:25 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

HOORAY LEOs


10 posted on 08/30/2019 3:42:38 PM PDT by PGalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Enough to kill 14 million but probably only a 30 day supply for that market.


11 posted on 08/30/2019 3:42:47 PM PDT by BusterDog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vince Ferrer; DUMBGRUNT
China will then just ship their drugs from some other nation.

I don't know what the solution but I do know our country is dying from its citizens being sedated and addicted.

12 posted on 08/30/2019 3:43:53 PM PDT by Lizavetta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Lizavetta

Reopen the asylums, legislate morality, and wait about 100 years.

We won’t, we can’t, and we won’t live long enough for it to matter anyway.


13 posted on 08/30/2019 3:48:49 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Would be just to addict them to their own product, then kick them out on the streets with their victims to die the same wasting death.


14 posted on 08/30/2019 3:58:17 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DUMBGRUNT

Hell, the Chinese government is producing it.


15 posted on 08/30/2019 4:00:01 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

“enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people”

Yes, if there were 14 million retards who would inject it.


16 posted on 08/30/2019 4:00:27 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PGalt

Just wait until the 39 people are indicted on a host of charges.

Oh, just a moment. With AG Session II in charge, spitting on the sidewallk will be the most serious charge.


17 posted on 08/30/2019 4:00:27 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Lizavetta

We will fix the drug problem when president Xi picks up his phone and tells the drug traders to stop shipping to the US. He may be more motivated to do that if not only does he have to pay tariffs, but the containers carrying Chinese goods pile up in port waiting for our noble but understaffed customs officials to search each container, and each package from UPS, Fedex, and USPS for drugs.


18 posted on 08/30/2019 4:08:22 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: ransomnote

Well just heard one of drugs that killed Tyler Skaggs was fentanyl...


19 posted on 08/30/2019 4:14:24 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Da Coyote

Then you will have murdered my family. Good job, asshole.


20 posted on 08/30/2019 4:25:23 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-51 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson