A Clark County grand jury indicted three males accused of trafficking almost 45 kilos of fentanyl, the illicit opioid mentioned to be, many extra occasions, extra highly effective than morphine.
The suspects have been busted by Henderson Police Division officers in a sting operation outdoors Sundown Station the early hours of Aug. 27.
They’re Jesus Aguayo Jr., David Alexander Estrada, and Ulyses Augurio Lopez-Vazquez.
Based on a transcript of the grand jury proceedings, narcotics officers testified that police recovered about 213,000 counterfeit tablets inside a suitcase within the trunk of the Dodge Charger occupied by the trio.
Authorities allege the tablets have been coming from Mexico by way of Arizona with Henderson being the ultimate vacation spot.
The grand jury panel returned a superseding indictment Tuesday on one rely every of trafficking and transporting a managed substance and conspiracy to violate federal trafficking-related regulation, paperwork present.
Henderson Justice Courtroom information present that the suspects every posted a $20,000 bail shortly after their arrests.
The operation was “a deliberate takedown for a considerable amount of suspected fentanyl tablets,” an officer testified. “At that time we established a plan to take away these things from, or take away the fentanyl tablets from the streets, clearly due to the disaster that’s occurring and we developed a plan to have it’s taken down at Sundown Station.”
The blue tablets, marked as “M30s,” have been pressed to resembled official 30 mg oxycodone M30 tablets, the detective mentioned.
At the least one particular person in one other automobile that confirmed as much as the drug deal fled. Police didn’t pursue the automobile as a result of its driver was driving recklessly, a detective mentioned.
Overdose deaths of Individuals from non-pharmaceutical fentanyl have exploded within the final decade.
In Las Vegas, one of many victims was Louis Steyer, a 17-year-old aspiring creator, whose mother and father discovered him useless in July 2021.
The federal authorities reported not less than 125,000 overdose deaths in 2023 within the U.S., with fentanyl contributing to just about 60,000 of them, in response to a Drug Enforcement Administration report.
Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez at [email protected].
