“We need our parents to talk to their kids about the dangers of this fentanyl,” Grinnell said. Until you go back to the source and wipe it off the map, we are going to continue to chase our tail.”Įchoing that sentiment, Lake County Sherriff Peyton Grinnell said that while local and state law enforcement agencies will continue to tackle the problem, he asked for the public’s contribution. But somebody else will step up to the plate, because the money is there, and they know the product is just going to keep on flooding in. “For a short time, it will dry out in Volusia County. “You have got to stop it before it gets here,” Chitwood said. More: What is fentanyl? A look at the drug at the center of a recent major narcotics bustĬhitwood said that despite the efforts of the sheriff’s office and the other agencies in operations like these, the problem at the border must be addressed at its root for it to stop. In 2021, 106,699 people died from drug overdoses - up from 92,000 who died the year before, according to the CDC. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “When you have a porous border, this is what comes into our community.”įentanyl is a synthetic opioid so powerful that it is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. “I think we are pretty confident in saying that,” Chitwood said.
The fight against fentanylĬhitwood blamed the situation on the lack of control in the nation's southern border, where the drugs, especially fentanyl, are sneaked in from Mexico. Compare that to a kilo of cocaine, which produces 5,500 doses, and a kilo of heroin, which produces 142,000 doses,” the sheriff said. "One-thousand grams (1 kilo) of fentanyl produces 673,000 doses. The 2,319.7 grams of fentanyl seized during the operation equate to more than 1.5 million individual doses, Chitwood said.Ĭocaine washes up: Third bundle of cocaine washes up on Volusia County beaches in less than a week In addition to Drew Daly, 29, the arrests included his suppliers, Vernon Woodward II, 39, of Orange City, and Preston Ingram, 36, of DeLand. More than 2,300 grams of fentanyl were seized during the investigation, along with about 53 grams of black tar heroin, 138 grams of cocaine, 423 grams of methamphetamine, 43 grams of MDMA, 180 opioid pills, 11 firearms (1 stolen), and more than $100,000 in cash and assets. “Six to eight kilos have been coming in a month and destroying our counties since this investigation began.” “These drug traffickers are responsible for distributing kilo amounts of fentanyl in Volusia and Lake counties on a monthly basis,” Chitwood said.
The multiple charges levied include armed trafficking in fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and MDMA among several other crimes.Ĭhitwood said some of the members of the criminal organization have previous arrests for “numerous crimes, including narcotics violations, firearms and weapons violations, and violent crimes against persons.” “While arrests have been made throughout the investigation, about-two dozen defendants were taken into custody during a sweep Thursday that included nine search warrants executed across the DeLand and Orange City areas,” according to the sheriff's office. The operation “identified sources of supply altogether responsible for distributing multiple kilograms of fentanyl per month” in Volusia and Lake counties, according to the sheriff’s office. Nearly a dozen agencies worked together on the five-month investigation dubbed "Operation Daly Dose," named after one of the alleged ringleaders, Drew Daly of DeLand. Watch Video: Footage of Operation Daily Dose in Volusia, Lake CountiesĭAYTONA BEACH - Forty-one people connected to a central Florida drug trafficking ring have been arrested thanks to a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said Tuesday.
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