OHP, OBN discuss uptick in fentanyl busts on Oklahoma highways – FOX23 News

TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma Highway Patrol mentioned highways are made for entry, not for shifting medicine.

“I think of Oklahoma city where you have 1-40 and 1-45 and then Tulsa you have 1-44 cutting through the city,” mentioned Trooper Eric Foster with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

“It makes us valuable real estate for the drug organizations and it makes our job that much more difficult for law enforcement,” added Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Spokesperson Mark Woodward.

Law Enforcement has been coping with drug trafficking for years. The medicine they see now are extra harmful.

“You start talking about fentanyl where any kind of contact even a microscopic contact can kill a person,” he mentioned. “Several years ago, I made a stop and I got into fentanyl … and got sick,” Foster mentioned.

Four folks have been booked in the final week for drug costs however are on maintain for Immigration and Customs Enforcement which means they, and people medicine, aren’t from the U.S. and never even a border shut down can seemingly cease what’s coming by means of.

Trooper Eric Foster says they method drug safer as they develop into extra harmful.

“Just the air that we breathe. When we find drugs like fentanyl or opioids in a vehicle, we must be very careful in how we handle it,” Foster mentioned.

Woodward mentioned even in the event you did shut down entry to the southern border, there are different roads to getting medicine in from all instructions.

“Every bit of means you can imagine. Whether it is coming in from across the border in Texas, or Arizona or California, to coming in from Asia on cargo ships or the Canadian border southbound or even coming through aircraft,” he mentioned.

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