The San Diego County Sheriff's Crime Laboratory has detected the presence of xylazine in 16 of 284 drug cases so far in 2023; SDPD does not test for xylazine
A month after the proposal of that federal law, the Biden administration designated fentanyl mixed with xylazine an“As a physician, I am deeply troubled about the devastating impact of the fentanyl-xylazine combination,” Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said in an April statement. “As President Biden’s drug policy advisor, I am immensely concerned about what this threat means for the nation.
Coincidentally, it was two days before the White House announcement that federal investigators in San Diego arrested the middleman who was shipping drugs and receiving cash shipments. According to the criminal complaint in his case, agents from Homeland Security Investigations first began monitoring his actions when a package addressed to him was intercepted at a FedEx facility in San Diego.
On April 10, undercover HSI agents followed the man, who was driving a white Mercedes-Benz SUV, from his downtown San Diego apartment to a Postal Annex store in El Cajon. Outside the facility they surrounded his vehicle and arrested him. Agents searching the SUV found a vacuum-sealed bag containing more than 2 pounds of a white powdery substance wrapped in several layers of packaging. A field test conducted on the substance returned positive results for both fentanyl and xylazine, according to the criminal complaint. Though the plea agreement acknowledges the presence of xylazine, it does not provide details about how or when the xylazine was added to the fentanyl.
Federal court records reviewed by the Union-Tribune showed at least one other instance when law enforcement detected the presence of xylazine in a drug sample. In that case a man inadvertently shot himself in the groin in March 2022 in Logan Heights. Responding officers found a belt bag they believed belong to the man containing powder fentanyl, as well as 834 counterfeit oxycodone pills that the DEA lab later confirmed contained fentanyl and xylazine.
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