Baltimore Cops Serve Warrant on Corner Discount Store; Find Enough Fentanyl to Paralyze the City

[mountaineer]

Baltimore Cops Serve Warrant on Corner Discount Store; Find Enough Fentanyl to Paralyze the City
True Pundit
Dec. 5, 2017

Police in Baltimore served a search and seizure warrant Tuesday on a corner discount store and discovered more than they bargained for: Fentanyl and plenty of the highly potent opioid.

In fact, so much of the highly addictive substance was uncovered, a hazmat team was called to help secure the scene. ...

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Baltimore Sun reporter Kevin Rector tweets:

 Kevin Rector‏Verified account @RectorSun
Breaking: Police tell me officers executed a search and seizure warrant here, found what they suspect is a “substantial amount” of the highly-potent opioid fentanyl, called in hazmat as a precaution to handle the drugs.

 Kevin Rector‏Verified account @RectorSun
Four neighborhood residents have now independently told me they’re surprised because this discount store just opened within the last few months. I don’t know when exactly.

Also reported by WJZ TV, Baltimore

[Sanguine]

Ah, the "opioid crisis".

[Restored]

That's some wicked stuff. It will kill you quickly and painlessly but we can't use it on condemned prisoners because it is too effective

[truth_seeker]

Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times the strength of oral morphine.

You can find many named versions of opioids here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianalgesic