The Minot Police Department assisted the Ward County Narcotics Taskforce with a search warrant on Sept. 14 in northwest Minot.
The Narcotics Taskforce seized a large amount of fentanyl, measuring one kilogram or roughly 10,000 fentanyl tablets, and a firearm reported stolen in another state.
The investigation is ongoing.
The Ward County Narcotics Taskforce is a multi-jurisdictional team comprised of law enforcement personnel from Ward County Sheriff’s Department, Minot Police Department, United States Border Patrol, North Dakota Army National Guard, and the Bureau of Criminal Investigations.
Fentanyl is estimated to be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. According to Families Against Fentanyl, it is the number one cause of death in the United States for people between the ages of 18 – 45. Fentanyl fatally poisons one person in the U.S. every 8.57 minutes, which equates to 175 fentanyl poisoning deaths every day.