Federal agents said they seized enough fentanyl to kill thousands of people at a home in Akron last week.
According to court documents, officers from the Ohio Northeast Smuggling Enforcement Team issued a search warrant for a home on South Arlington Street on Thursday because they believed Roy Wimberly was trafficking drugs from there.
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According to an affidavit signed by a US Department of Homeland Security special agent, they discovered Wimberly inside with more than five pounds of methamphetamine, various firearms, including an assault rifle and a sawed-off shotgun, and 126 grams of fentanyl.
The fentanyl stash discovered weighs less than a baseball at 126 grams, but the Narcotic Enforcement Administration estimates that only 2 milligrams of the narcotic are needed to kill the average adult. If squeezed into 2 mg pills, it may create almost 60,000 potentially deadly doses.
According to court documents, Wimberly was charged with meth and fentanyl trafficking, using a gun during a trafficking incident, owning a handgun while a felon, and keeping a drug house.
Wimberly’s detention hearing is scheduled at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at Akron’s federal courthouse. Meanwhile, Wimberly is in jail.
