Three arrested on Ohio Turnpike with $65,000 fentanyl stash
A drug-sniffing dog helped the Ohio State Highway Patrol find 110 grams of the powerful opiate Fentanyl inside a car on the Ohio Turnpike.
SANDUSKY, Ohio - A drug-sniffing dog helped the Ohio State Highway Patrol find 110 grams of the powerful opiate fentanyl inside a car on the Ohio Turnpike.
Troopers say the pulled over a Dodge Charger last week in Sandusky County for a turn signal violation.
The patrol brought in a K-9 to sniff around the car who led troopers to a package of fentanyl they say would have a street value of $64,807.
The Drug Enforcement Agency says fentanyl is an opiate 50 times more powerful than heroin.
The suspects, Pinchello Bell, 36, of Park Forest, Ill, Deon Thompson, 53, and Leroy Buttrom, 39, both from Detroit, Mich., were booked into the Sandusky County Jail on charges of possession and trafficking.
