A 57-year-old man who was arrested after a task force found 5,000 pills of suspected fentanyl in his North Whidbey home was released from the Whatcom County jail late last week after posting $150,000 bail, according to court documents.

Andres Venegas Hernandez was taken into custody at his home in the Northgate Terrace neighborhood on Whidbey July 16 in an operation by the Whatcom Regional Drug Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security Investigations and the Washington state Department of Corrections, according to the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office.

Hernandez is facing charges of suspicion of leading organized crime, money laundering, delivery of a controlled substance, including fentanyl and cocaine, and possession with intent to deliver heroin, cocaine and fen

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