SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Orange County law enforcement is revealing a huge fentanyl seizure - 18 pounds of the drug.
That's enough of the synthetic opioid to create four million lethal doses.
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That's half the amount of fentanyl seized in all of 2018, suggesting the drug is quickly growing into a substantial public threat.
This drug bust was in Santa Ana.
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According to the California Department of Public Health, deaths in Orange County attributed to fentanyl have risen from 14 five years ago to 93 in 2018.