SEASIDE – A 31-year-old man was arrested in Monterey for allegedly promoting fentanyl that led to an overdose demise, police mentioned.
On March 24, the Seaside Police Division responded to a medical name of a person who overdosed and finally died from fentanyl use at his house. After investigating the matter, Seaside detectives decided that Justin Born, 31 of Monterey, had bought the medicine to that man.
Seaside detectives set out Friday for Monterey to serve an arrest and search warrant for Born at his house on Ocean Avenue. Through the journey, nonetheless, a driver struck a police automobile. There have been no accidents. The incident was unrelated to warrants being served and a girl was subsequently arrested, Seaside police mentioned.
Seaside and Monterey detectives later tracked down Born. He was arrested and charged with manslaughter, in addition to quite a few drug trafficking felonies. A search warrant of Born’s house revealed over six ounces of fentanyl, a ghost gun and greater than $16,000 in money.
Seaside Chief of Police Nick Borges estimated the road worth of Born’s fentanyl stash “someplace within the ballpark of $30,000-35,000,” he mentioned.
“To place it into context,” Borges continued, “1 / 4 of a sugar packet-size (pouch of fentanyl) is sufficient to kill a number of folks if they've a low tolerance.”
A extremely highly effective opioid, Fentanyl is 50 to 100 instances stronger than morphine. Due to its excessive efficiency, Fentanyl poses a larger threat for overdose and fatality. However depth types solely a chunk of Fentanyl’s hazard.
Non-prescribed fentanyl is being bought on Snapchat and Instagram as counterfeit tablets like Percocet, Xanax and Oxycontin. Practically half of all counterfeit tablets examined contained a deadly dose of fentanyl, in keeping with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Many who take counterfeit tablets minimize with fentanyl are unaware that they had been ingesting a lethal dose of the drug.
In Monterey County, deadly overdoses from fentanyl tripled from 2019 to 2020.
“It’s a really scary state of affairs,” Borges mentioned.
Borges mentioned by their investigation, Seaside detectives imagine that Born was “promoting fentanyl in excessive volumes all through the Monterey Peninsula.”
“This arrest will save dozens and dozens of lives,” he went on.
Nonetheless, Borges added that “there’s extra fentanyl right here on our streets.”
“There are much more sellers on the market (like Born),” he mentioned. “Fentanyl is essentially the most outstanding drug in our space. … Based mostly on what we all know and what we’ve seen, there’s many like him, some are a lot larger and a few are smaller, however we don’t suppose he’s the one one.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, Born was in custody on the Monterey County Jail. His bail is about at $50,000.
