Drug raid in Arapahoe County seizes 13,000 fentanyl pills and cocaine

Officers seized tens of thousands of dollars in cash, methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in a drug raid in Arapahoe County on Thursday, sheriff's officials said.

Around 5 a.m. Thursday, Arapahoe County Sheriff's deputies with the Special Investigations Unit served two narcotics search warrants and made several undercover drug buys, the sheriff's office said in a statement on social media.

During the operation, officers seized:

• According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a kilo of meth is worth between $6,000 and $15,000 in the United States.
• 13,000 fentanyl tablets that could contain between 0.02 and 5.1 milligrams – more than twice the lethal dose – of fentanyl, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said. Sheriff's officials test the pills to determine the purity and concentration of the drug.
• 151 grams of fentanyl powder. Because just two milligrams is considered a potentially lethal dose, the fentanyl powder officers seized could have killed 75,500 people, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
• 63 grams of heroin, worth between $1,722 and $2,751 in the United States, according to UN data, depending on location and purity.
• 60 grams of cocaine worth between $1,680 and $1,980, according to the UN.
• 12 grams of mannitol.
• $10,000 in cash.

Colorado recently ranked first in the country in cocaine use for the third consecutive year, according to data released by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Several suspects who had ties to a Honduran drug trafficking organization were arrested Thursday, sheriff's officials said. The number of arrests was not disclosed and no suspects were identified.