{"id":7035,"date":"2025-10-16T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7035\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:12:10","slug":"over-500000-in-meth-cut-with-fentanyl-seized-at-downtown-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7035\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $500,000 in meth cut with fentanyl seized at downtown hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Two people have been arrested, and over half a million dollars of meth cut with Fentanyl has been seized by the Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, authorities received a tip that a potential narcotics operation was happening at a downtown hotel, the Tru by Hilton. Authorities staked out the hotel and witnessed activity consistent with drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>A warrant was issued, and two hotel rooms were located in connection with the trafficking. In one room, deputies found 10 kilos of meth cut with Fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fentanyl is 50 times more addictive than crack cocaine,&#8221; said Salazar during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Yolanda Ponce, 38, and Tomas Hernandez Jr, 22, were arrested. The drugs have a street value of between $500,000 and $80,0000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Two people have been arrested, and over half a million dollars of meth cut with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,6934,2111,307,82,84,83,6933,6932,1733],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county","tag-details","tag-fentanyl","tag-live","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-seizure","tag-sheriff-salazar","tag-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}