The Tangipahoa (La.) Parish Sheriff's Office confiscated a record amount of prescription fentanyl from a home in Tangipahoa, La. on July 12, according to Fox 8.
Here are six things to know:
1. The sheriff's office worked with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office, Hammond Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration to make the seizure.
2. The investigation began July 11, when authorities followed up on allegations of a resident planning to distribute a large quantity of pharmaceutical grade fentanyl. Investigators identified a home occupied by two men and a juvenile as the potential distribution cite for the fentanyl.
3. After pinpointing the house, detectives executed a search warrant July 12, finding more than 750 sublingual fentanyl pumps and 11 thermal fentanyl patches.
4. During a police interview, the men said they'd been receiving the fentanyl pumps in the mail for more than two years. After one of the men received a fentanyl prescription for a back injury from a pain management clinic, he allegedly started receiving packages of the fentanyl pumps and patches in the mail. The man acknowledged it was odd he was receiving the shipments, but told police he didn't think it was illegal.
5. Detectives found opened and unopened packages of the prescription fentanyl in a bedroom of the male resident who did not have the prescription. When they asked him about the fentanyl, he denied using the opioid. The prescription owner said the male resident did not have permission to take his medication.
6. Detectives took the second male resident, 32-year-old Daniel McCann, into custody and charged him with theft and possession with the intent to sell. No other arrests were made, and a federal investigation into the incident is pending. The juvenile living at the home was placed under the care of the Department of Children and Family Services.
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