DeKalb Sheriff: Eight arrested in fentanyl trafficking home
DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. (WDEF) — The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office recently busted a drug house and arrested eight people. The sheriff’s office called it a “one stop fentanyl shop.”
Drug agents with the sheriff’s office served a search warrant at the house on Alabama Highway 75 in Sylvania.
There, they found nine adults and one juvenile. One of the adults was unresponsive. Authorities gave that person four doses of Narcan and took him to a hospital to be treated for an overdose.
Agents then arrested the other eight people in the home. They say they will also be getting warrants for the adult who overdosed.
DeKalb authorities arrested the following people:
- Caiden Bryan Gore
- Jesse James Outlaw
- Richard Madison-Noel Hudson
- Amber Dawn Cleveland
- Haley Nicole Smith
- Dakota Rhear Orear
- Jesse Maurice Munguia
- Mauricio Michael Munguia
They all face various charges, including fentanyl trafficking, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, chemical endangerment of exposing a child, and loitering at a drug house.
The Department of Human Resources then handled the juvenile who was in the house.
The sheriff’s office said the suspects cut, packaged, sold and delivered drugs to the public using social media. They added that the pills they distributed looked like other pharmaceutical drugs, but they were counterfeit pills with fentanyl.
In addition, agents said they found a trafficking amount of fentanyl, meth, marijuana, controlled prescription medicine, drug paraphernalia and two pistols.
DeKalb Sheriff Nick Welden made this statement on the drug bust and arrests.
“Fentanyl poisonings are at an all-time high, these are not isolated incidents. These are happening in every state and every county in America, leaving behind grieving families. Let us be clear: These poisonings are part of a strategic maneuver by the cartels, and it must be stopped. We will remain committed to doing all that we can to combat the fentanyl crisis in our area and holding those accountable who traffic this deadly poison. In addition to those resources, we must shift how we respond to what appears to be an overdose, no longer treating them as accidental deaths, but instead as a homicide crime scene. These individuals are victims of a greater problem, and we are committed to putting an end to these deaths.”
The DeKalb County Drug Task Force, Sylvania Police Department, DeKalb County Criminal Investigations Division and DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies all assisted in working this case.
The sheriff’s office says fentanyl is the leading cause of death in the U.S. for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.
