A police drug bust in Phoenix netted more than 1 million fentanyl pills in what city police called the most significant fentanyl seizure in department history.
On Sept. 21, Phoenix police detectives with the Special Assignments Unit executed a warrant to search a home in Avondale, during which they found a large stash of drugs.
Two men, Francisco Delgado, 26, and Jose Molina, 21, were arrested during the investigation and booked at the Maricopa County Jail on multiple drug-related charges.
“Detectives followed leads involving the possession of narcotic drugs for sale,” Phoenix police said in a press release.
Florida authorities shut down a fentanyl operation and seized an amount of fentanyl enough to kill more than 4 million people, the Florida state attorney general’s office announced on Sept. 21, 2022. (Clay County Sheriff’s Office)
Using “advanced investigative techniques,” the detectives developed sufficient information to obtain a search warrant for a home on Avondale Boulevard and Durango Street….