Mexican national admits attempted distribution of 1.4 million pills containing nearly 153 kilograms of fentanyl
www.justice.gov
A 38-year-old man is facing life in prison after pleading guilty in one of the largest fentanyl cases prosecuted in the Southern District of Texas
  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 month ago

    Ok I re read the article and I think the misleading part is this:

    1.4 million fentanyl pills totaling 152.98 kilograms.

    The total weight of the pills was ~153 kg, but that’s not all Fentanyl. The pills CONTAINED it but this doesn’t tell us the amount per pill.

    Furthermore it looks like they were stamped as Oxycodone so yeah they were to be sold to current opiate users I wager

    • Podunk@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      In texas, if you get busted with pot brownies, the entire weight of the pan is the “weight” of the drugs. Normally its makes it an instant felony. I imagine this is one of those situations, just to an extreem level.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 month ago

      So then it’s probably around 1.5kg of fentanyl. They generally use a little over a mg a pill, with some outliers do to poor mixing.