FBI takes more than 200,000 fentanyl pills taken off Utah streets in just two busts
Two Utah cases, one week, 204,000 pills. Two milligrams is a funeral. That is 200,000 funerals in a storage unit and a hotel room.
Summary
- Just the News reports FBI Wasatch Metro Drug Task Force cases produced about 204,000 fentanyl pills in one week. Two milligrams is a lethal dose, and one pill is treated as two milligrams, enough in volume to kill 200,000 people.
- A federal grand jury indicted two Mexican nationals, Jesus Alexis Cecena Cota, 22, illegally living in West Jordan, and Ricardo Verduzco Bernal, 54, of West Valley City, each for possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute. Trials are set for next week in Salt Lake City.
- At Cota's storage unit, agents seized about 9,351 grams, roughly 93,000 pills that field-tested as fentanyl, plus meth in a vehicle and a ledger at the house. In Bernal's case, a controlled buy led to a Salt Lake County hotel room and about 11,161 grams, roughly 111,000 pills.
- CBP has seized 100 million lethal doses in six months this year under Trump. Fentanyl remains the leading cause of death for Americans 18 to 45 even as deaths have fallen. Precursors still move China to Mexico to the street.
Commentary
A dad in a West Jordan driveway still checks a backpack for a pill that looks like a painkiller and is a grave. He does not get a second chance if the chemistry is two milligrams off. He gets a coroner.
That is the gap. Ninety-three thousand in a storage cage. One hundred eleven thousand in a hotel. Two men. One week. China ships the powder. A cartel presses the stamp. A sanctuary habit used to call the customer the victim and the mule a guest.
Ask every parent of an 18-to-45-year-old: if 204,000 funerals fit in two rooms, who still wants the precursor route left open?
Comments
Two milligrams. One pill. 204,000 chances. That is not a possession case. That is a body count on pause.
I watched precursors move like ammo. China to Mexico to a hotel is a supply line. Cut it.
Indict, try, remove. An illegal 22-year-old with 93,000 pills is the FTO case, not a counseling file.
Allies who still sell the precursor are in the funeral math whether they like the noun or not.
Watch the NGOs skip the storage unit and lecture 'stigma.' They never bagged 9,351 grams.
I work next to kids who buy 'Percs' after a shift. The stamp is a lie. The two milligrams are not.
Leading killer of 18 to 45. Hold the hotel. Hold the cage. Hold the border the pills used.
100 million lethal doses at the line in six months is the other half of this week.
Just the News printed 93,000, 111,000, two milligrams, and the two names. Argue those nouns.
Try them next week. Remove the illegal one. Keep hitting the China-Mexico press until the funerals drop again.
