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Two Londoners face charges after police seized more than $60,000 in drugs, almost all of it the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, plus a restricted weapon and a butterfly knife, police say.
Almost 400 grams of suspected fentanyl, valued at $59,000, as well as crystal meth, hydromorphone pills and morphine, and more than $3,000 in cash were seized after a search of a hotel room in the 600-block of Wellington Road, between Commissioners and Southdale roads, late last week, police said on Tuesday.
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A man, 61, and a woman, 42, have been jointly charged with four counts of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking.
The man additionally faces charges of unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon and possession of a firearm, weapon or ammunition while prohibited.
The accused are scheduled to next appear in a London courtroom on Sept. 27. Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call London police at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Fentanyl is highly addictive and up to 100 times more powerful than morphine. Its use has been implicated in much of the opioid drug crisis sweeping Ontario and the rest of the country. Across Southwestern Ontario, police and prosecutors have brought criminal charges against fentanyl dealers over the deaths of people to whom they’re accused of selling drugs.
In a 2019 Free Press feature, a local drug user explained the lure of fentanyl, even to people who know as little as two grains of it could be fatal.
“The number of deaths in the last few years should be enough to scare you sober. But fentanyl, I’ve never seen anything like it,” the man, then 34, said. “Fentanyl is one of the heaviest opiates you can get on the market. For an addict who uses hydromorphs or whatever and tries fentanyl, it’s a lot.”
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