The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office seized 4.3 kilograms of fentanyl on Friday, July 10, an amount officials say could produce 215,000 lethal doses.<\/p>\n
Narcotics Unit detectives arrested 49-year-old Alejandro Villasana, who authorities said flew from Chicago to Jacksonville to deliver the drugs to 36-year-old Javaris Williams. Both men face multiple criminal charges, according to JSO.<\/p>\n
Investigators also seized a firearm and more than $60,000 in cash during the operation.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n While the arrests took only minutes, JSO said the case was the result of months of work by its Major Case, Mid-Level and Street Level Narcotics teams, along with its Overdose Death team.<\/p>\n Officials said the amount of fentanyl seized could be lethal to everyone in the city’s downtown ballpark and arena eight times over.<\/p>\n “This is a significant win in our fight against Fentanyl,” JSO said in a statement. “It’s almost a quarter of a million deadly doses removed from our streets.”<\/p>\n The agency said it will continue targeting fentanyl trafficking in the city and is asking the public to report suspected drug activity by calling 904-630-0500.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/strong>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/strong><\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/strong>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/strong><\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here<\/strong><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office seized 4.3 kilograms of fentanyl on Friday, July 10, an amount officials say could…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":946772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[381033,5229,24094,3188,723,7310,381034,8423,381186,381185,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-946771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alejandro-villasana","tag-america","tag-fentanyl","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-javaris-williams","tag-jso","tag-lethal-doses","tag-narcotics-unit","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116950523186118215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946771","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=946771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}