Nearly 170,000 fentanyl pills worth seized by Phoenix Police

Phoenix Police and DEA agents made one of the largest fentanyl seizures in the state of Arizona [Photo courtesy Phoenix Police]

PHOENIX — Phoenix Police working with Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized nearly 170,000 fentanyl pills as part of a joint operation.

The total street value of the drugs is roughly 3 million dollars.

Officers and agents were following drug trafficking activities of 24-year-old Marcelino Ontiveros Quintero. When Arizona Department of Public Safety took him into custody, Quintero had approximately 165,000 of the blue “M-30” fentanyl pills in the car with him.

Task Force members searched four other locations in Phoenix and Peoria, finding another 4,000 pills.

Fentanyl rose in prominence in 2016, marketed as the “Mexican oxy,” according to Phoenix Police.

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