JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A major drug bust in the Mixon Town neighborhood of Jacksonville has residents alarmed and authorities warning of the deadly reach of fentanyl in the community. <\/p>\n
Police said the amount of fentanyl seized in the operation was enough to kill tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n
Action News Jax told you about the drug bust yesterday after JSO shared details via Facebook.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Four suspects were arrested during the raid on Clemente Drive: John Williams (44), Lorenzo Dukes (24), Abdul Robinson (30), and Katherine Rivera (40). <\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Investigators discovered a stockpile of drugs and weapons inside a single home. Among the narcotics recovered were over 180 grams of fentanyl\u2014equivalent to more than 90,000 potentially lethal doses\u2014along with cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and six firearms.<\/p>\n The bust has shaken nearby families, many of whom say they were unaware such activity was happening so close to home.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about that,\u201d said Jane Doe, a mother who recently moved to the neighborhood. <\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s a good thing. You know, I\u2019m new to this community, so the fact that there\u2019ll be less drugs around here\u2014that\u2019s going to make it look like people aren\u2019t all on drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Doe, like many other parents in the area, expressed concern for the safety of children living nearby.<\/p>\n \u201cWe raise a lot of children around here,\u201d she said. \u201cWe care about what they will be in the future and what they are around.\u201d<\/p>\n The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office says the bust is part of a broader effort to curb drug trafficking in residential neighborhoods, particularly those involving fentanyl\u2014a synthetic opioid driving overdose deaths across the country.<\/p>\n Residents said they hope this latest arrest sends a clear message: drugs will not be tolerated in their community.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A major drug bust in the Mixon Town neighborhood of Jacksonville has residents alarmed and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,51793,3188,723,7324,7310,7327,8423,73251,7325,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-117014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-drug-bust","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-fox30","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-fl","17":"tag-jso","18":"tag-mixon-town","19":"tag-northeast-florida","20":"tag-southeast-georgia","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-wfox","28":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114967975341143983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}