PHENIX CITY, Ala.(WRBL) — One anonymous tip. That’s all it took to set off what Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor is calling the largest fentanyl bust in the agency’s history, and one of the most substantial narcotics seizures the department has ever seen.

Roughly 2,344 grams — about five pounds — of fentanyl were recovered during a raid on a Phenix City home, along with $171,000 in cash, four firearms, and an array of other illegal drugs, including meth, heroin, cocaine, and MDMA. One of the guns seized was a “ghost gun” — untraceable, with no serial number.

Sheriff Taylor said the fentanyl, enough to kill thousands, was allegedly being distributed by 40-year-old Darren Mitchell, a Phenix City man who, until now, had not been on law enforcement’s radar. Sheriff Taylor says it appears

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