KANSAS CITY —Last week KCKPD Narcotics unit seized approximately 15,000 counterfeit pills laced with deadly fentanyl.
On June 1, detectives served a warrant on a home and seized approximately 6,000 counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl. Officers also found cocaine, marijuana and firearms.
The next day, officers discovered approximately 9,000 more fentanyl laced pills, cocaine and two additional firearms in a vehicle seized during the operation. The drug operation was run out of a home that looks like any other home on the block, according to police.
Police encouraged the public to take a close look at the pills. They are made to look exactly like the ones you would get from a pharmacy but contain lethal amounts of fentanyl- a drug fifty times stronger than heroin and one hundred times stronger than morphine. Once inhaled or ingested the overdose can occur within seconds to minutes.
The signs of overdose include: lips turning blue, gurgling sounds with breathing, stiffening of the body of seizure-like activity, foaming of the mouth and confusion or strange behavior before the individual loses consciousness.
There have been 61 overdoses and 11 overdose deaths in 2022, according to the KCPD.
If you are with someone who exhibits these symptoms, call 911 immediately.
These pills could have ended up in your neighborhood. Report any suspected drug activity to the narcotics hotline 913-573-6287.