In 72 hours, Monroe Police responded to four overdose deaths over the weekend. Monroe Police Chief Vic Zordan, who’s also a former DEA agent, said the first of the four overdoses happened on Thursday.
“In my mind, I said we’ve got a bad or hot batch of fentanyl-laced product that came into the city. Because we were out with one deceased person and when one of my detectives was at that scene, we get information that there was another one. So, she literally left one to the other,” said Zordan.
Zordan wants to warn the public of what he believes is a particularly deadly strain of fentanyl.
He said an arrest has been made in connection with one of the overdose deaths and they were able to….
“Recover some of the product. We won’t know exactly what was ingested by the people until the autopsy comes back of course, but it’s my guess that it’s probably going to be a fentanyl-laced product,” said Zordan.
Zordan said they believe two of the overdose deaths are linked and the cases remain under investigation.
Because there were four deaths in such a short period, authorities want to alert the public. Zordan said they are also asking the public to contact them or Crimestoppers if they have any information about overdoses.
“So, we can network and try to pinpoint where it came from originally and hold those people responsible for it,” said Zordan.
Zordan said as much as 67 percent of the drugs they process are shown to contain fentanyl. He said one milligram of fentanyl can kill a person and which is equivalent to 11 grains of table salt.
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