Flores-Hernandez is suspected of harboring over 124,000 pills of the deadly narcotic. The Department of Justice reports that he allegedly peddled the Fentanyl to individuals throughout the Salt Lake City region. On March 21, the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force, acting on a search warrant, discovered 124,044 blue pills in his apartment, weighing a total of 12,404 grams. Preliminary field tests confirmed the pills to be Fentanyl.
Flores-Hernandez was apprehended shortly after entering his apartment, found in possession of approximately $9,000 in cash and an additional 500 blue pills. Following his arrest, a federal grand jury indicted him on March 27. He subsequently appeared before a Magistrate judge at the Orrin G Hatch United States District Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City to answer to the charges.
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As reported by KSL, court documents disclosed that during an interview, Flores-Hernandez confessed to detectives that he was involved in distributing Fentanyl across the Salt Lake Valley and remitting roughly $8,000 per month back to Honduras.
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Flores-Hernandez, characterized as a "foreign national living in Utah," had been expelled from the United States on three separate occasions - July 14, 2011, May 9, 2018, and July 16, 2019. Each time, he managed to reenter the country unlawfully.
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The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) states that Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. A quantity of the substance equivalent to the size of a pencil's lead tip is sufficient to cause a fatal overdose in an average person.
In 2023 alone, the DEA confiscated over 79.5 million fentanyl-laced pills and 12,000 pounds of pure Fentanyl powder, equating to more than 376.7 million lethal doses.
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