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SKIPPY_IS_REAL t1_je9wan3 wrote

Reply to comment by kingdom_tarts in Several People Arrested After Guns, Narcotics Found During Operation in Hartford by IndicationOver

The only part of this story that matters is the fentanyl and they didn't give a real weight on those 6,000 bags so this sounds like a small bust to pretend they are doing something...

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TheValentinePianoman t1_jea3w1t wrote

Do you not know how much fentanyl you need to kill a human? What could fit on the end of a pencil is enough to kill a man. Any amount of fentanyl is a dangerous amount.

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Boring_Garbage3476 t1_jeart51 wrote

The word fentanyl is used to describe any narcotic that is cut with fentanyl. So it most likely was not strait fentanyl.

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SKIPPY_IS_REAL t1_jea58tm wrote

Okay, but fentanyl is also everywhere so the only important story is if you bust the main supplier. When they arrest the people bringing it into the state, they will have made progress.

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TheValentinePianoman t1_jea5r2l wrote

How do you know these aren't part of the group of people that bring it in? I think any fentanyl bust is a good one.

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SKIPPY_IS_REAL t1_jea6696 wrote

I know it's not the group bringing it in because they are bragging about guns instead of bragging about dealing a substantial blow to the fentanyl situation.

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TheValentinePianoman t1_jea72xr wrote

Wouldn't that be proof of the exact opposite? Besides, they might not be yet higher up on the ladder but who knows? One of them might have the balls to snitch

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SKIPPY_IS_REAL t1_jea7u1i wrote

Maybe, my point is that they don't specify. There are a lot of fentanyl busts going on over the last few days across the country as part of a huge federal operation. If you look at all of those stories, the highlighted picture is a table full of drugs despite hundreds of guns also being seized. In this one case, they are highlighting the guns and not the drugs. So my guess is these guys are not very high up and that these are small fish.

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TheValentinePianoman t1_jea893t wrote

And my question was how do you know. It seems like we're just running around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. I said any fentanyl bust is a good bust and if we are able to get information on those who are bringing it into the state, even better. We can both agree on that, right? If so, then this conversation is over

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CarlinHicksCross t1_jebnp8m wrote

I mean, it hasn't done anything to impact the current amount of fentanyl flooding the country. 7k bags of fentanyl off the streets of hartford is a literal drop in the pan, lol. Country wide no matter how many busts and large scale drug operations we do, the overdose rate and addiction rates continue to soar, people continue to have unfettered access to fentanyl, and we continue to wage a useless war on drugs that's been nothing but an abject failure since the 70s.

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