The arrest of a drug dealer in Chicago selling carfentanil and fentanyl is the first to be made there.
A Cincinnati man was indicted by a Grand Jury for selling the chemical, which is used to boost heroin and other drugs, reported the Chicago Sun Times. Clifford Reed was charged with selling a “kilogram of heroin mixed with carfentanil” and fentanyl to an informant who made a recording of the deal, which was for $65,000 (€62,491). The chemical has been imported into the US and Canada in cartridges previously, causing many deaths.
During the transaction the informant asked Reed about overdoses from carfentanil , and Reed warned him: “You got to cut it or they will die”: he also told the informant that he could get rich, saying: “I’m telling you bro. You going to $1 million (€961,000) quick, one month- $1 million, on my mama.” The synthetic drug is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and 10,000 times stronger than morphine, and has lead to over 300,000 deaths in the US, as reported by The Recycler.
Zachary Fardon, the US attorney in Chicago, has warned people about the dangers of these drugs, and was quoted as saying “I mentioned that two milligrams of fentanyl was enough to kill a person. Well, that same two milligrams of carfentanil is enough to knock out a 2,000 pound African elephant. So it’s no surprise then that carfentanil laced with heroin is a killer. Last month it was responsible for at least eight overdose deaths in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, and I can tell you that carfentanil is not limited to Ohio and points east. It is right here in Chicago. Right now”.