Police in Lake Worth have taken a boatload of lethal drugs and guns off the streets, and one man is behind bars.
On Friday, Lake Worth officers were executing an arrest warrant on Jon Curb at his home on Lakeside Dr.
Curb was wanted on two counts of manufacture and delivery of illegal drugs.
"We've received several anonymous tips related to this residence in a variety of forms," said Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian, "and we've also tracked a few overdoses back to this location as well, which is what drew our attention to it."
While inside his home, officers made a discovery that can only be described as astonishing - scores upon scores of illegal drugs.
"Detectives seized 3,390 grams of suspected amphetamine," said Chief Manoushagian, "They also seized 18.6 grams of suspected fentanyl powder. That number may seem small, but that's enough doses to kill 9,300 people. That's more than the population of our entire city."
And that was just the proverbial tip of the iceberg; detectives also seized the following:
• 17 grams of suspected DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine)
• 54 grams of suspected bath salts (Synthetic cathinone)
• 24 grams of suspected cocaine
• 186 grams of suspected promethazine syrup
• 20 grams of suspected homemade alprazolam (Xanax) pills
• 42 grams of suspected methamphetamine
• 11 guns of varying styles and calibers, one of which was stolen
• 2 homemade suppressors (silencers)
• 1 pill press
"You could not step in this house without stepping on a meth pot, paraphernalia, empty baggies," said Ofc. Landon Rollins. "It was in every room of this house. Every nook and cranny everywhere you looked, there was narcotics and paraphernalia."
"We estimate that of the 3.75 kilograms of total drugs seized, it has an estimated street value of ... almost $2.3 million," Manoushagian said. "The seizure is 72 times larger than the average operation undertaking by our team, and it is the largest illicit pharmaceutical seizure and our department's history."
The amount of drugs seized, according to Manoushagian, would have yielded 11,721 lethal doses; of which, 9,300 were fentanyl.
Curb remains behind bars in the Tarrant County Jail.
"There were two other individuals detained when Mr. Curb was taken into custody; they've since been released," Manoushagian said. "So at this time, we don't expect any additional arrests. Mr. Curb was the target of this operation."
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