The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office says it seized a large amount of illegal narcotics during a drug bust in Covington Tuesday night.
"With the assistance of Homeland Security Investigations, detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation, which resulted in the arrest of a 24-year-old Mexican national male," the sheriff's office said in a news release. "The male was transporting five kilograms (approximately 11 pounds) of fentanyl at the time of his arrest."
That much fentanyl could kill 2,500 people.
Fermin Ortega Rodriguez was booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail.
"Fentanyl is a very dangerous drug, and I commend the detectives who worked this case and prevented a large quantity of this deadly drug from ending up on our streets," said St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith.
