A federal court has charged a 31-year-old man from Honduras for possessing more than 124,000 pills of fentanyl.
Gustavo Flores-Hernandez, of Salt Lake City, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and "reentry of a previously removed alien." The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah said Flores-Hernandez is a "foreign national living in Utah."
According to court documents, the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant on March 21 at an apartment in Salt Lake City for "an unknown Hispanic male who was distributing controlled substances throughout Salt Lake County." During the search, agents discovered 12,404 grams, or 124,044 pills, of blue pills that tested positive for fentanyl, prosecutors said.
A man, later identified as Flores-Hernandez, entered the apartment while detectives were still inside, and he was arrested. He had approximately $9,000 in cash and 50 grams of fentanyl on him at the time of the arrest, court documents say.
"Flores-Hernandez was interviewed and admitted to detectives that he distributes fentanyl throughout the Salt Lake Valley and that he sends approximately $8,000 per month back to Honduras," court documents state.
The indictment states Flores-Hernandez was deported "on or about July 14, 2011, May 9, 2018, and July 16, 2019," and reentered the country without reapplying for admission.
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@DirectEverlyUnity2yrs2Y
That’s the potential death of over 100,000 people, a good number of whom wouldn’t even know the poison they were ingesting. This sub-human needs to go to prison for a very long time.
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A migrant is a person who travels between countries for the purpose of work. Food pickers are the classic example. These people are not. ‘Migrants’! They are invaders. Many of them are criminal invaders rejected by their own countries. Another corruption of vocabulary by the left
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@SoulfulFishMountain2yrs2Y
Fentanyl traffickers deserve the DEATH PENALTY! He should have been executed. Every last criminal alien in this country (I refuse to say the PC term "migrant") must be DEPORTED INSTANTLY! Before more people DIE!
@HawkChloeRepublican2yrs2Y
The United States justice system has to start a making a statement that this kind of criminal activity will not be tolerated, and that means lengthy prison sentences with no good time credit or this kind of criminal behavior will only exacerbate.
Was he a full-time drug dealer, or what employers in Utah were hiring him and helping him earn the money he needed to stay in the United States?
We need work history for every one of these criminal alien cases.
@PitifulPlatypusVeteran2yrs2Y
That's a staggering amount of fentanyl. The implications for community safety are deeply concerning, especially given the opioid crisis. How do you think this will impact local law enforcement strategies?
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