Salt Lake Metropolis man charged with possessing 124K fentanyl drugs

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal court docket has charged a 31-year-old man from Honduras for possessing greater than 124,000 drugs of fentanyl.

Gustavo Flores-Hernandez, of Salt Lake Metropolis, was indicted by a federal grand jury on costs of possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and “reentry of a beforehand eliminated alien.” The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Utah stated Flores-Hernandez is a “overseas nationwide residing in Utah.”

In line with court docket paperwork, the Utah County Main Crimes Job Drive executed a search warrant on March 21 at an house in Salt Lake Metropolis for “an unknown Hispanic male who was distributing managed substances all through Salt Lake County.” Through the search, brokers found 12,404 grams, or 124,044 drugs, of blue drugs that examined constructive for fentanyl, prosecutors stated.

A person, later recognized as Flores-Hernandez, entered the house whereas detectives had been nonetheless inside, and he was arrested. He had roughly $9,000 in money and 50 grams of fentanyl on him on the time of the arrest, court docket paperwork say.

“Flores-Hernandez was interviewed and admitted to detectives that he distributes fentanyl all through the Salt Lake Valley and that he sends roughly $8,000 per thirty days again to Honduras,” court docket paperwork state.

The indictment states Flores-Hernandez was deported “on or about July 14, 2011, Could 9, 2018, and July 16, 2019,” and reentered the nation with out reapplying for admission.