A couple accused of the largest so far fantany bust in the history of Chester – public radio in South Carolina

The Chester County Sheriff’s service has charged a marriage couple in connection with the largest fantany bust in the county so far.

The deputies seized 1,700 grams of fentanyl, 87 grams of cocaine, approximately 2 kilograms of marijuana and 17 firearms, including several AP -style rifles on Monday.

Travaris and Lamonic Dixon are confronted between 25 and 40 years in prison if they have been sentenced to charges, including trafficking, possession with the intention of distributing and possessing a deadly weapon during violence.

Dorsey said Dixons have five children, whom he said they were “placed in a safe environment” according to CCSO policy. He said the seizures stem from the “participation of the community”.

“We appreciate the people who provide us with information,” he said.

Doorsi estimated that the value of drug streets was about $ 250,000.

“This is the biggest fentanyl ground in the history of Chester County,” Dorssy said. “This is something we are obviously proud of to remove this large amount of drugs from the streets. But this is not something we are proud to know that this type of drug is on our streets. “

Dorssy, a long -time sledding officer, said the scale of seizures has the potential to prevent several hundred thousand deaths from fentanyl overdose.

“The fentanyl, seized on Friday, had the potential to be a fatal overdose for about 800,000 people,” he said. “To say in perspective, these are everyone who lives in the cities of York, Chester, Lancaster, Fairfield and Richland. So this could kill any citizen along the I-77 corridor in South Carolina. And this is a conservative assessment. “

Dorsey said his cabinet would continue to look for connections that could come from Dixons’ arrest.

“Let’s be honest,” he said. “These drugs are not made in the backyard in Edgmor [the community where the Dixons lived]S They are made in China. They enter America through [southern]t border. “

Doorsi said she hoped the security measures of the boundaries adopted by the Trump administration would help place a recess in the flow of drugs on the street. But he also said he was concerned about the vacuum that he could create so much fentanyl from circulation in Chester County.

“Now we hope that because of the steps taken by our federal government, by providing the border, it will have an effect in our local community,” Dorssy said after a press conference. “But with the stopping of this flow comes the risk we will see in our local community, number one, the price of these drugs will increase; Number two, people who are struggling with addiction, they will still look for these drugs and take extreme measures to do so. “

Dorsi said the typical shoot of a big drug bust is an increase in property crimes to pay for increased prices for illegal drugs.

“People will handle a lot of things to steal things that they would not usually steal just to provide money to buy a medicine that is a price increase,” he said. “These are things that will be concerned.”