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San Diego Sheriff's invoke sporadic searches to combat drugs from entering County jails
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It's a new plan from the San Diego Sheriff’s Department to try and keep drugs and weapons out of our jails and no one is immune from this tighter screening - even the deputies who work there will have to go through it.
“Fentanyl on the street sells for about $1.50 a pill. In the jail, it's about $150 - so there's a lot of incentive to traffic drugs, narcotics in our facilities,” Sheriff Kelly Martinez said.
In 2023, the department confiscated more than 1,350 grams of fentanyl, methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and pills along with 48 weapons. Already this year, they're confiscated more than 500 grams of drugs and 16 weapons.
FULL STORY: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/searches-hope-stop-drugs-entering-san-diego-county-jails/509-b4ebbe6f-ae6c-4c06-9c2e-b2f01748ba23