Drug cartels try to make the potentially deadly fentanyl look like candy to children and young people, authorities said.
A man was arrested Monday in a Burlington County parking lot with 10,000 fentanyl pills worth $40,000 on the street, investigators said.
Shane Smith, 33, of Daytona Beach, Florida, was charged with two counts of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance and was taken to the Burlington Jail in Mount Holly pending his detention hearing, theDetails of the investigation were not divulged by the office, which only said that it began earlier this month and resulted in Smith’s arrest in the parking lot of a Walmart on Route 73 in Mount Laurel.According to the U.S.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the DEA. Just two milligrams of fentanyl, which is equal to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, is considered a lethal dose. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 107,622 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, with 66% of those deaths related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
The fentanyl available in the United States is primarily supplied by two criminal drug networks, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, the DEA stated.
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