CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ — A sweeping narcotics investigation led by the Cape May County Gangs, Guns and Narcotics Task Force ended with the arrest of one man and the removal of thousands of deadly drug doses from the streets — including a staggering quantity of Carfentanil, a synthetic opioid so potent it’s used to tranquilize elephants.

Investigators seized approximately 3,300 individual baggies of suspected heroin during the bust, but a forensic analysis by the county’s laboratory revealed the substance was actually Carfentanil — a drug 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and 5,000 times more potent than heroin. Law enforcement officials say even trace exposure to the drug can be fatal.

The bags were seized as part of an operation that resulted in the arrest of Harold Perez, whose c

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