A Pacific man, whose drugs are tied to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, was caught with over 50,000 pills whose only active ingredient is carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that is 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

On Sept. 16, a Federal Way Police Department officer, alongside Centralia Police, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, arrested Nathaniel Washington, of Pacific, after he was found possessing 50,208 carfentanil pills.

According to court documents, investigators discovered that Washington had been flying to Phoenix, Arizona, renting a car and then driving drugs back to Washington state.

Documents state that investigators got hold of Washington’s text messages, which indicated that he was likely selling tens of thousands of fentanyl

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