Nevada Charges Driver After 707-Pound Fentanyl and Meth Seizure Worth $2 Million

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 16

Federal prosecutors charged Francisco Joel Garcia Farias, 26, after an Oct. 13 traffic stop in Lincoln County, Nevada, uncovered about 30 pounds of suspected fentanyl and 677 pounds of suspected methamphetamine in his pickup.
A sheriff’s deputy stopped the truck for speeding on U.S. Highway 93 near Ash Springs, and a narcotics dog alert led deputies to 13 storage totes holding 187 meth packages and 13 fentanyl bricks.
Prosecutors said the 14 kilograms of fentanyl equate to roughly 7 million potentially lethal doses—more than twice Nevada’s population—and put the combined street value of the haul at about $2 million.
Garcia Farias faces two federal possession-with-intent charges carrying a mandatory minimum 10 years and up to life in prison on each count if convicted.
The case, investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, was framed by officials as evidence of large-scale narcotics trafficking reaching rural Nevada.