9/17/2022
Police arrested two Newport men after they reported finding more than 1,000 fentanyl pills.
According to a news release from the White County Sheriff’s Office, Searcy police officers stopped a white Cadillac Escalade at the intersection of South Main Street and West Beebe-Capps expressway at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.
The officers requested assistance from the sheriff’s office K9 unit, which “alerted on the odor of narcotics.”
During a search of the vehicle, officers reportedly found 1,114 fentanyl pills and 3.8 ounces of suspected methamphetamine. The sheriff’s office place the street value of the drugs at $49,790.
Officers arrested 45-year-old Tyrone Ellis and 43-year-old Joshua Haynes, both of Newport.
The men are being held in the White County Detention Center on suspicion of trafficking a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance (meth/cocaine) with the purpose to deliver.
Note: More than 932,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. Nearly 75% of drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid.
Opioids are substances that work in the nervous system of the body or in specific receptors in the brain to reduce the intensity of pain.
Overdose deaths involving opioids, including prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids (like fentanyl), have increased by more than eight times since 1999.
Overdoses involving opioids killed nearly 69,000 people in 2020, and over 82% of those deaths involved synthetic opioids.
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