Approximately 1.9 million fentanyl pills, 33 pounds of cocaine, 406 pounds of methamphetamine and 16.3 pounds of heroin were seized in an 18-month period, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.<\/p>\n
The fentanyl\u00a0had a street value of $20.6 million, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n
Fentanyl deaths in San Diego County fell 30% in 2024 from the previous year, according to statistics from the Medical Examiner’s Office cited by Sheriff Kelly Martinez at Monday’s news conference at the County Administration Center,<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office began seeking additional funding to combat fentanyl use in 2022 and received $1 million in state funding in 2023, thanks to efforts by Sen. Brian Jones, R-Santee, Martinez said.<\/p>\n
“When children as young as 13 years old began dying from using the drug, we knew we needed to act with more urgency,” Martinez said.<\/p>\n
The Board of Supervisors allocated $500,000 last year for fentanyl investigations by the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
“Thanks to this teamwork, we are making great strides,” Martinez said.<\/p>\n
Supervisor Joel Anderson, who wrote the motion for the funding, said he was pleased by the results.<\/p>\n
“Just think about those pills not on our streets,” Anderson said. “These are drugs that if you use them once, you’re addicted for life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approximately 1.9 million fentanyl pills, 33 pounds of cocaine, 406 pounds of methamphetamine and 16.3 pounds of heroin…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,10860,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-9826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-department","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","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=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}