The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office seized 4.3 kilograms of fentanyl on Friday, July 10, an amount officials say could produce 215,000 lethal doses.<\/p>\n
Narcotics Unit detectives arrested 49-year-old Alejandro Villasana, who authorities said flew from Chicago to Jacksonville to deliver the drugs to 36-year-old Javaris Williams. Both men face multiple criminal charges, according to JSO.<\/p>\n
Investigators also seized a firearm and more than $60,000 in cash during the operation.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n While the arrests took only minutes, JSO said the case was the result of months of work by its Major Case, Mid-Level and Street Level Narcotics teams, along with its Overdose Death team.<\/p>\n Officials said the amount of fentanyl seized could be lethal to everyone in the city’s downtown ballpark and arena eight times over.<\/p>\n “This is a significant win in our fight against Fentanyl,” JSO said in a statement. “It’s almost a quarter of a million deadly doses removed from our streets.”<\/p>\n The agency said it will continue targeting fentanyl trafficking in the city and is asking the public to report suspected drug activity by calling 904-630-0500.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office seized 4.3 kilograms of fentanyl on Friday, July 10, an amount officials say could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139846,1069,116,118,117,139847,1872,141619,135337],"class_list":["post-345690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alejandro-villasana","tag-fentanyl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-javaris-williams","tag-jso","tag-lethal-doses","tag-narcotics-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}