Colorado Police Recover Fentanyl From Apartment Where 5 People Were Found Dead

The Colorado police discovered drugs laced with fentanyl on a home, where five people suffered fatal overdoses on Sunday.

According to Fox News, the detectives from the Commerce City Police Department in Colorado were the ones who discovered the drugs in an apartment on East 104th Avenue in Commerce City.

It can be recalled that five people, two men and three women, were found dead at the said apartment on Sunday afternoon. 9 News reported.

On Monday, 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason said the tainted batch of drugs might still be circulating in the community, The Denver Post reported.

"There are other people out there who might have the drugs from that same batch or have drugs from the same dealer who could take those drugs tonight. And we have more deaths. It's terrifying public health, public safety crisis," Mason noted.

5 Dead Over Fentanyl Overdose, Colorado Authorities Say

The discovery of the fentanyl-laced drugs came after the Colorado Police responded at the site around 3:45 p.m. on Sunday.

Officials found five people dead at the apartment. Authorities did not release the names of the deceased, but they said they were a 28-year-old woman, a 32-year-old woman, a 29-year-old woman, a 24-year-old man, and a 32-year-old man.

A four-month-old infant and a 29-year-old woman were also found inside the apartment, and they were brought to a hospital. The woman reportedly received medical care while the infant underwent a checkup and is currently doing fine.

Commerce City Police Chief Clint Nichols said the infant's mother was among the deceased. Mason noted that the Commerce City Police led the investigation with the help of the Metro Drug Task Force and the district attorney's office.

The Commerce City Police said its investigators were "aggressively pursuing leads" so they could "vigorously pursue charges" for those who sold or provided the drugs.

According to Mason, preliminary testing and other evidence suggest the five victims believed they were ingesting cocaine and did not realize the drug had been laced with fentanyl. He noted that all of the victims likely died almost instantly.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. It is commonly mixed with drugs like cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.

Colorado's Fentanyl Problem

Colorado's crisis against fentanyl continued to surge. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment noted that approximately half of the 1,581 drug overdose deaths last year were attributed to fentanyl.

Of those numbers, 618 died of methamphetamine, 227 of cocaine, and 167 died from heroin. The 2021's records on drug overdose deaths in Colorado also showed a 43 percent increase from the 540 deaths on drug overdose in 2020.

Meanwhile, state data currently shows that at least two people from Colorado die of fentanyl overdose daily in the first nine months of 2021.

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Written by: Joshua Summers

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