SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – On Tuesday, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office made a massive fentanyl bust at an Oakland High School.
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Sheriff's deputies arrested four suspects and seized 15 pounds of fentanyl, one kilogram of heroin and $139,000 in cash from inside a drug dealer’s car, according to a post on the department's Twitter page.
Although the bust took place at the parking lot of Mclymonds High School, the operation was not related to the school, according to the post.
Along with the charges facing the four suspects, drug trafficking within 1000 feet of a school is an additional crime, the department wrote, and additional charges will be sought.
Fentanyl has continued to be a major problem in the Bay Area in recent years, with overdose deaths rising.
In April, Alameda County Sheriff's Office deputies made a massive bust of millions of dollars worth of fentanyl, a total of 93 pounds, or 42 kilograms, from both Oakland and Hayward.
Just a couple of months ago, San Francisco public health officials raised the alarm after a spate of overdose deaths in the Mission District was linked to fentanyl working its way into other drugs, like cocaine.
And the issue isn't just limited to the Bay Area. On Wednesday, the CDC reported that 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the last year, a new record, as reported by The Associated Press.
And many of those deaths can be attributed to fentanyl. In the last year, more than 71,000, overdose deaths were caused by fentanyl or other synthetic opioids, the outlet reported, an increase of 23% from the year before.
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