8 arrested following overdose at suspected Alabama âone stop fentanyl shopâ
Authorities in North Alabama have arrested eight people after finding an overdose victim and a juvenile in what they termed a “one stop fentanyl shop.”
The DeKalb County Drug Task Force, along with Sylvania Police Department and Dekalb County’s criminal investigators and deputies took part in the investigation.
Investigators said people at the residence on Alabama 75 in Sylvania cut, packaged, sold and delivered narcotics.
According to the sheriff’s office, agents executing a search warrant found nine adults and one juvenile in the residence. One of the adults was found unresponsive and required four doses of narcan to be resuscitated. The overdose victim was transported to Dekalb Regional.
DHR responded and took custody of the juvenile.
According to the sheriff’s office, a search turned up a trafficking amount of fentanyl, methamphetamine, marijuana, prescription medications, drug paraphernalia, two pistols and cash.
Caiden Bryan Gore, 21, of Fyffe, Jesse James Outlaw, 22, of Sylvania, and Richard Madison-Noel Hudson, 25, of Fort Payne, were all charged with drug trafficking, first degree marijuana possession, chemical endangerment of a child, resisting arrest, loitering, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of drug possession.
Amber Dawn Cleveland, 32, of Sylvania, was charged with chemical endangerment of a child, drug trafficking, first degree marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of drug possession.
Haley Nicole Smith, 24, of Gadsden, Dakota Rhea Orear, 27, of Scottsboro, Jesse Maurice Munguia, 19, of Rainsville, and Mauricio Michael Munguia, 18, of Rainsville, were all charged with drug trafficking, first degree marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, loitering, two counts of drug possession and chemical endangerment.
Warrants will be obtained for the person hospitalized.
According to Sheriff Nick Welden, the people arrested “did business largely in the open, on Instagram and Snap Chat.”
“Fentanyl poisonings are at an all-time high, these are not isolated incidents. These are happening in every state and every county in America, leaving behind grieving families,” Welden said.