Cops: 500,000 fentanyl pills found in Arizona traffic stop

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — Two girls have been arrested after about 500,000 fentanyl capsules have been present in an SUV pulled over for rushing on Interstate 10 in Arizona, police mentioned.

The capsules have been discovered hid in collagen complement bottles on Monday throughout a search that additionally turned up a handgun and a considerable amount of money, police from the small metropolis of Casa Grande south of Phoenix mentioned in an announcement.

U.S. overdose deaths have risen most years for greater than twenty years. The rise started within the Nineteen Nineties with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, adopted by waves of deaths led by different opioids like heroin and — most lately — illicit fentanyl.

Final yr, overdoses involving fentanyl and different artificial opioids surpassed 71,000, up 23% from the yr earlier than. There additionally was a 23% enhance in deaths involving cocaine and a 34% enhance in deaths involving meth and different stimulants.

Within the Arizona site visitors cease, Martha Lopez, 31, and Tania Luna Solis, 30, have been arrested on suspicion of crimes together with possession of a narcotic drug on the market, in accordance with police.

Court docket data didn’t listing attorneys who might touch upon behalf Lopez or Solis, who’re from Phoenix.

Two kids within the automobile have been turned over to state youngster safety officers, police mentioned.