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Nebraska State Patrol says seizing fentanyl a priority
LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) – Nebraska regulation enforcement has been busy seizing fentanyl because it continues to brush its means throughout the nation.
Within the final week, two Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) stops yielded hundreds of what officers consider to be fentanyl drugs.
Lt. Eric Kauffman with NSP says he thinks again to 2017 when a 40-pound fentanyl bust was the third-largest within the nation.
Kauffman says as a result of drug’s efficiency and variety of overdose instances throughout the nation, discovering and seizing fentanyl is a precedence for NSP.
”You carry that ahead to in the present day, and 40 kilos, 120 kilos, whereas each vital quantities of seizures are nowhere close to the most important seizures throughout the nation,” Kaufmann stated. “There may be considerably extra fentanyl in our communities in every single place round this nation.”
Kauffman says fentanyl-laced drugs can look similar to unusual drugs. He stresses warning within the face of drugs circuitously out of your pharmacist.
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