HALL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE NEWS RELEASE
“Investigators with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the United States Postal Inspection Service recently confiscated more than 550 grams of fentanyl that had been mailed to Hall County.
Agents carried out the narcotics package interdiction operation on Tuesday, Aug. 22. During the
investigation, an HCSO K9 exhibited a positive odor response on a package shipped from California to a P.O. Box in Flowery Branch. According to the initial investigation, the individual the package was addressed to does not exist.
Law enforcement obtained a search warrant and opened the package, which contained approximately 562 grams of fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of $112,400.
The multi-agency investigation is continuing into the source of the pills.”