Grady Judd: Record-breaking bust nets
enough fentanyl to kill 14.5 million people
Fox 13 Tampa,
by
Ryan Burkett
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
6/25/2025 9:35:40 AM
Sheriff Grady Judd says detectives in Polk County seized 64 pounds of fentanyl and arrested eight people in what the sheriff's office calls the largest fentanyl seizure in the county's history.
The backstory:
Judd says the first of two undercover investigations began in July 2024, and the cases involved Mexico's two largest cartels: Jalisco and Sinaloa. Six suspected Jalisco members and two Sinaloa members have been arrested.
A total of 29 pounds of fentanyl were seized from Jalisco and another 35 pounds were seized from Sinaloa, according to Judd – enough to kill 14.5 million people.
The sheriff's office says the 64 pounds of fentanyl carried a total value of $4.5 million.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 6/25/2025 9:42:30 AM (No. 1969226)
14.5 million!!
iranian retaliation?
has ANYONE thought about
weapons like this from..
china et al
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissGrits 6/25/2025 9:49:07 AM (No. 1969227)
Shoot them! Then send them back to Mexico!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/25/2025 9:50:07 AM (No. 1969229)
I used to think that Indonesia's penalty was a little harsh on drug smugglers (execution). I am now not so sure.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/25/2025 10:05:07 AM (No. 1969244)
You have to be some kind of stupid, to be in the drug business and you're selling a product that kills your customers.
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#1 hits the nail on the head: The "head of the snake" is the Chinese Communist Party, which is as much a RICO enterprise as it is a ruling political party.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/25/2025 10:53:15 AM (No. 1969282)
You can't fix stupid but you can arrest stupid.
– Sheriff Grady Judd
I wish we could clone this lawman.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
0658 6/25/2025 11:04:48 AM (No. 1969288)
Straight forward Lawman!! Too bad other politicians cannot place the same emphasis on straight talk and truthfulness.
Although he may not have the entire spectrum of experience for Governor. he has common sense and the experience to know right from wrong. A worthy successor to DeSantis.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2025 11:34:25 AM (No. 1969294)
Thank the Chinese Communist Party, who is waging bioterror war on us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/25/2025 1:07:57 PM (No. 1969320)
If you want to see what Fentanyl is doing to our young population, go to You Tube and check out 'Fentanyl Kills' videos. It will break your heart.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/25/2025 1:12:31 PM (No. 1969321)
Works out to 31 cents per death.
We must crush China.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 6/25/2025 1:14:39 PM (No. 1969323)
How did it get past our border into our country and when? Was it because our Customs and Border Protection officers have been given additional responsibilities to calculate and collect more tariffs?
I've been listening to a lot of Thomas Sowell's books lately, and in his Applied Economics he points out that politicians very often think as far as Stage 1 (immediate goals and objectives) but don't always get to Stage 2 (long-term and unavoidable economic consequences).
I've been waiting for a conversation about the need to increase the number of resources manning our border posts to cope with the significant increase in work created by imposing tariffs. If that conversation doesn't happen, there will be fewer resources available to protect our border.
I care far more about the latter than the former.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
thefield 6/25/2025 2:03:26 PM (No. 1969334)
Harder to track and watch cars trucks, trains and ships.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 6/25/2025 2:58:32 PM (No. 1969349)
At this point, Grady Judd's reputation should precede him, and you'd think crooks would know to steer clear of Polk County. But as they say, you can't fix stupid.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/25/2025 3:20:52 PM (No. 1969353)
When are we going to stop treating large volume drug dealing as an ordinary crime? People die from fentanyl and dealing in more than personal use should be a capital offense worthy of the death penalty.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chumley 6/25/2025 4:35:52 PM (No. 1969378)
Something aint right or is greatly exaggerated. If this stuff is so deadly it rivals nuclear or bio weapons in lethality, why are we not seeing millions of deaths? Why is it available legitimately with a prescription?
This just dont add up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2025 6:01:18 PM (No. 1969392)
Re #15, I was talking to an old friend, a retired pharmacist when George Floyd killed himself with a drug overdose. I was asking of a certain blood level of a opiate, like fentanyl, was deadly. He said, it depends entirely on the individual, and their history with the drugs.
He related a tale of a patient in his hospital with severe, extreme pain from terminal cancer. This patient would be pai n free for a while, then suddenly the pain would 'attack', for want of a better word. The patient was normally living at home, but would come to the hospital for pain meds when it flared up. One time he showed up, got a strong dose of opiates, but no effect. My friend said that the docs would monitor respiration and see how the body was reacting. Opiates kill by suppressing breathing. If his breathing was OK, and he was still in pain....more drugs. This one patient on a Saturday wiped out the entire supply of whatever they were giving him (maybe morphine, I forget) and they had to go to two other hospitals to get more due to the weekend.
He said "This guy was so used to the opiates that he was fine on a dose that would kill a horse".
Apparently the same for fentanyl. Drug abusers build up a tolerance, and the doses that they are OK with would kill a normal person. So.....the odd reporting.
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Maybe Sheriff Judd can find who left the drugs in the White House closet.