High-Level Seattle Drug Bust Yields Meth, Heroin, Guns: Police

SEATTLE, WA — Police last month served several warrants resulting in the arrest of a high-level Seattle drug dealer and the seizure of large amounts of narcotics, guns, and a pill press used to manufacture counterfeit pills, according to the Seattle Police Department.

Police on Dec. 12 served a search warrant at a North Seattle home, where they recovered 215 grams of heroin, 270 grams of fentanyl nearly 2,700 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, two handguns and the pill press, according to police.

On New Year's Eve, police arrested a 36-year-old man in North Seattle stemming from the same investigation, police said.

Police also served several other search warrants on properties associated with the same drug organization, in which they recovered 7 kilograms of methamphetamine, 4 kilos of heroin and cocaine, over 200 grams of fake oxycodone pills and almost $2,500 in cash, police said.

The investigation is ongoing, police said.