Large Fentanyl discovery linked to package mailed from La Mirada apartment

Federal investigators found enough fentanyl to kill one and a half million people in suburban St. Louis probe

St. Charles, Missouri-   Federal charges have been filed against two men after search warrants served on two separate apartments found a large cache of the drug fentanyl reportedly enough to kill 1.5 million people according to prosecutors.

The arrests were the result of an investigation that was launched after the drug was found in a package deemed suspicious that was mailed from an apartment in La Mirada according to the St. Louis CBS-affiliate KMOV.

The charges allege the two men are part of a distribution ring.

Fentanyl is an opioid and is used as a pain medication and is a key component of anesthesia.  The drug has come under closer scrutiny in recent years with the increasing death toll associated with it's growing popularity with recreational drug users

20,000 deaths in 2016 have been attributed to fentanyl abuse in the United States..

Any law enforcement actions locally have yet to be made public.

Update 9/21/18 2:59 pm  Update article with new details on the investigation at 

http://www.lamiradanews.org/2018/09/package-mailed-from-la-mirada-leads-to.html

Original source:

https://www.kmov.com/news/st-charles-men-facing-federal-charges-after-fentanyl-sent-to/article_8e602c1a-bd1e-11e8-a783-9f7066ac0833.html