{"id":155906,"date":"2026-04-03T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:26:12","slug":"erie-county-deputies-seize-record-amount-of-meth-after-four-month-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155906\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County deputies seize record amount of meth after four-month investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a four-month investigation, the Erie County Sheriff\u2019s Office says this week\u2019s operation led to one of the largest meth seizures in its history. <\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Erie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> on Thursday said a four-month investigation led to a major drug bust, and one of the largest meth seizures in its history.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies \u2014 along with local, state, and federal partners \u2014 executed search warrants in Buffalo and Lockport earlier this week. Investigators said they found nearly 42 pounds of suspected crystal meth, along with 11 pounds of fentanyl, five pounds of suspected cocaine, a stolen shotgun, and cash.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested 55-year-old Michael Hatten of Buffalo, who was released on bail but is now back in custody, after U.S. Marshals picked him up on a federal warrant during a traffic stop on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is believed to be the largest single seizure of meth in Erie County Sheriff\u2019s Office history,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a four-month investigation, the Erie County Sheriff\u2019s Office says this week\u2019s operation led to one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-155906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}