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.
“This is truly a life-saving drug bust,” Sheriff Taylor told WRBL. “Fentanyl can kill on the first use — and this man, allegedly, was out there poisoning our community like there was no tomorrow.”
The case began on or around July 20, when investigators received an anonymous tip that Mitchell was allegedly selling drugs from a vehicle near a Circle K in Phenix City…