Deputies in an Arapahoe County drug bust Thursday seized tens of thousands of dollars in cash, methamphetamines, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, sheriff’s officials said.
Around 5 a.m. Thursday, Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies with the Special Investigations Unit served two narcotics search warrants and made several undercover drug purchases, the sheriff’s office said in a statement on social media.
During the operation, deputies seized:
One kilo of meth, valued between $6,000 and $15,000 in the United States, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
13,000 fentanyl pills, which could contain between 0.02 and 5.1 milligrams — more than twice the lethal dose — of fentanyl, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Sheriff’s officials are testing the pills to determine the purity and concentration of the drug.
151 grams of fentanyl powder. With just two milligrams being considered a potentially lethal dose, the fentanyl powder deputies seized could have killed 75,500 people, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
63 grams of heroin, valued between $1,722 and $2,751 in the United States depending on location and purity, according to UN data.
60 grams of cocaine, valued between $1,680 and $1,980, according to UN data.
12 grams of mannitol.
$10,000 in cash.
Colorado recently ranked first in the country in cocaine consumption — for the third year in a row — according to data released by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Multiple suspects connected to a Honduran drug trafficking organization were arrested Thursday, according to sheriff’s officials. The number of arrests made was not released and no suspects were identified.
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Arapahoe County sheriff’s officials said the suspects were charged with multiple drug felonies and are currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One of them was previously deported for felony drug distribution, the sheriff’s office said.
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