A California man was arrested on I-94 on Tuesday after eight pounds of fentanyl was found in his car.
It happened around 9:40 Tuesday morning when Michigan state police pulled over a vehicle for traffic violations.
While talking to the driver, troopers suspected criminal activity and were given permission to search the vehicle.
They found approximately 8.8 pounds of fentanyl stuffed into a bag.
Their investigation also led to them finding over four pounds of fentanyl at another location as well as around $30,000 in cash.
The man was taken into the Van Buren County Jail on charges of possession with intent to deliver more than one thousand grams of fentanyl.
According to reports, evidence showed the man was allegedly smuggling fentanyl from California to Michigan.
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Should be automatic life in prison! Make tougher punishments if you want to have any chance of slowing this epidemic. And end the cartels immediately
The Michigan State Police just saved a lot of lives by getting this poison off the streets. Fentanyl is killing thousands of people a month in this country. We need a secured United States Southern border so this stuff doesn’t come across it.
Fist of all … this is a crisis of the willing. Don’t do illegal drugs and you don’t die from illegal drugs.
Second. If this mule does not drop on his entire chain he should be fed all of his fentanyl.
The article said 8.8 lbs. were discovered with an additional 4 lbs. discovered elsewhere. Even if the other 4 lbs. do not count in the charges, the article quoted, “charges of possession with intent to deliver more than one thousand grams”. 8.8 lbs. is almost 4000 GRAMS. Is one thousand just a watermark in the law’s language, or did 3000 grams disappear from evidence?