North Carolina Man Under $10M Bond After Fentanyl Bust

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is jailed beneath bond of greater than $10 million after a drug bust through which sheriff’s deputies seized greater than 1,000 drugs laced with fentanyl.

The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned its vice and narcotic unit lately concluded a three-month investigation into the sale and distribution of counterfeit drugs laced with fentanyl and being offered as “pharmaceutical grade,” information retailers reported.

The sheriff’s workplace mentioned that on Might 17, Scott Kenneth Aubrey was stopped and arrested after detectives discovered he had “a major quantity of counterfeit pressed drugs.” Detectives seized roughly 300 illicit drugs, and on the following day, search warrants led to an extra 783 illicit drugs, steroids and U.S. forex, officers mentioned.

Nearly all of the drugs examined optimistic for fentanyl and/or heroin, a information launch mentioned.

Aubrey, who did not have an legal professional as of Wednesday, faces a number of expenses, together with six counts of trafficking opiates and possession of heroin. The sheriff’s workplace additionally mentioned extra expenses are pending.

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