A 12-hour multi-agency enforcement operation in western Franklin County seized 9 kilograms of fentanyl — by far the largest drug seizure in the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s Operation Unity series this year — during an effort that also produced 198 traffic stops, 14 arrests and four illegal guns taken off the street, the Sheriff’s Office announced in a release.
The operation ran Wednesday, November 4, in Prairie Township and Franklin Township, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. It was the fourth Operation Unity the office has conducted in 2026, and it paired sheriff’s deputies with the Franklin Township Police Department and the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The fentanyl was seized during the execution of a search warrant, the Sheriff’s Office said in its release. Deputies also seized 3 grams of methamphetamine during the operation. WSYX in Columbus, which reported the same results, confirmed the 9,000-gram fentanyl figure — 9 kilograms — along with the rest of the operation’s totals…