{"id":51473,"date":"2025-07-09T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51473\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:21:10","slug":"1200-grams-of-fentanyl-seized-in-florida-drug-bust-enough-to-kill-half-of-jacksonville-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51473\/","title":{"rendered":"1,200 grams of fentanyl seized in Florida drug bust: &#8216;Enough to kill half of Jacksonville,&#8217; police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> &#8211; Five people were arrested and &#8220;enough fentanyl to kill half of Jacksonville&#8221; was recently seized in a Brentwood home drug bust, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office (JSO).<\/p>\n<p>   What happened? <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Last month, JSO narcotics detectives received a tip that a home in the Brentwood area was being used to distribute drugs to the downtown area. Officials said the house was located near a church, a library and a high school.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Detectives built up a case for a search warrant and were able to serve the warrant last week.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">In the home, investigators said they found 1,200 grams of fentanyl \u2014 enough to kill more than 600,000 people, which is more than half the entire population of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police also found the following drugs:<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">1,387.2 grams of cathinone<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">492.5 grams of crack cocaine<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">165.1 grams of powder cocaine<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">115.2 grams of ecstasy<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">7.1 grams of heroin<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">6.2 pounds of marijuana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Officials said drugs weren&#8217;t the only thing they found in the home. Five firearms were also recovered, one of which had been reported stolen and another that had an illegal switch on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Five people are also now facing felony charges in the case:<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">48-year-old Yahya Ali<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">47-year-old Alshawn Martin<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">20-year-old Bilal Ali<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">40-year-old Tywanna Davenport<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">54-year-old James Johnson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/screenshot-2025-07-09-084017.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">(Credit: Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p>  \u2018A safer place for you and your family\u2019 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;By shutting it down and putting the dealers behind bars, we\u2019re making Jacksonville a safer place for you and your family,&#8221; JSO officials said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Authorities said that anyone who sees suspicious activity in the neighborhood should report it by calling (904) 630-0500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This story was written based on information shared by the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office (JSO) in a Facebook post on July 8, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/series\/instastories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instastories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8211; Five people were arrested and &#8220;enough fentanyl to kill half of Jacksonville&#8221; was recently seized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,6082,3188,723,9994,7310,50,6166,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-51473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-instastories","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-series","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114823488133380760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51473","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=51473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}