More than 60,000 fentanyl pills and over 30 pounds of fentanyl powder were seized in a massive drug bust that targeted a group operating from Renton to Bellingham.
The investigation began in late March and undercover Homeland Security Investigations agents set up initial drug deals with four suspects. They set up a deal to purchase kilos of fentanyl powder and pills. Drug Enforcement Agency agents in Tacoma surveilled the dealer after he agreed to supply the drugs to the undercover agents. The DEA agents saw the suspect, and his co-conspirators, as they packed boxes, a backpack, and a cooler into a car at a Renton apartment complex.
Those arrested were: On May 9, when authorities were executing a search warrant of a Renton apartment, they also found an additional 60,000 fentanyl pills, another kilogram of fentanyl powder and multiple boxes of ammunition."This quick work by federal and local law enforcement will save lives with 16 kilos of fentanyl powder and tens of thousands of pills taken off the street," said U.S. Attorney Gorman.
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