They arrested a couple with drugs to kill 50 million people

A new episode of drug trafficking hits the United States. Riverside, Calif., Police arrest man and woman with over 30 pounds of drugs capable of killing 50 million people. The defendants insist on their innocence and will plead their case at the next hearing on November 9.

After several months of investigation, on August 17, the Riparian police found in a house 21 kilos of carfentanil (a synthetic derivative of fentanyl), four kilograms of cocaine and one of heroin. Although the suspects were not present at the time, they were quickly identified as Andrés Morales and Alyssa Ponce.

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A month later, the same operation found in a house in the same neighborhood 16 kilos of cocaine that it would be part of the business of the same people. Thus, they are charged with four serious offenses of possession and sale of these drugs. The defendants have been held since they were located by police and are expected to present their cases at the next hearing.

According to the Riverside Police Department, 21 kilos of carfentanil mixed with other medicines they would have been enough to potentially kill over 50 million people.

Carfentanil is ten thousand times more potent than morphine and a hundred times more potent than fentanyl. For humans, a nanogram (nine times less than a gram) is enough to be fatal. It is heavily regulated use, and in many countries it is not authorized for sale.

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