Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida recently announced the “single-largest” fentanyl bust in the county’s history, the department revealed in a Friday press conference, WTVT reported.
The sheriff’s office launched the investigation into the illicit operation in August after it learned about an organized drug trafficking operation based out of Mexico. The department arrested four individuals in connection with the scheme and seized 14 kilograms of fentanyl, two vehicles, and $5,261 in cash. Two of the suspected criminals, Pedro Rodriguez Correa and Maria Machuca-Alderete, were in the country illegally, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. The other two individuals, Maria Guadalupe-Garcia and Sergio Garcia, were from California.
“It seems like every time I come up here to talk about fentanyl with my colleagues I’m always saying,
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