OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Officers with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics say they’ve arrested a drug trafficker in Oklahoma Metropolis.
Officers say 27-year-old Glenvert Lavell Jones, Jr. was arrested on July 7 at his house in Oklahoma Metropolis after he was accused of trafficking fentanyl.
“OBN’s Anti-Heroin Job Drive has been investigating almost two-dozen deaths over the previous 15 months throughout the state tied to counterfeit Oxycodone. Throughout their investigation, Jones was recognized by OBN Brokers as a serious provider of those faux tablets laced with Fentanyl. He was arrested final week after receiving and trying to distribute a cargo of seven,900 Fentanyl tablets value almost a quarter-million {dollars} on the streets. Brokers additionally seized almost 1,000 Percocet tablets and a firearm from the defendant,” mentioned OBN Spokesman Mark Woodward.
Woodward says Fentanyl is a strong and low-cost drug that may be 100 to 1,000 occasions stronger than Morphine or heroin.
“It’s usually bought on the black market by drug organizations who use it as a filler in heroin or press the powder into tablets that resemble respectable U.S. prescription drugs. The tablets are blue in colour and stamped to seem like 30 milligram Oxycodone. Facet-by-side, it might be arduous for anybody to inform the distinction,” Woodward mentioned.
Since Might of 2023, OBN has arrested 9 individuals who have been charged in connection to deaths from these counterfeit Oxycodone tablets.
“Whereas they resemble pharmaceutical-grade tablets, these are mass-produced by legal drug trafficking organizations and smuggled into the USA the place they’re offered on the streets by native sellers who’ve little information concerning the drug’s efficiency. We’re involved as a result of these tablets are persevering with to flow into in communities throughout Oklahoma and we may see extra overdose victims,” mentioned Donnie Anderson, OBN Director.
Jones was arrested on a criticism of distribution and trafficking of managed substances.
Anybody with details about this case is inspired to contact OBN’s Anti-Heroin Job Drive at 1-800-522-8031. All suggestions can stay nameless.
