GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A traffic stop involving a Porche in southern Michigan led police to a Grand Rapids storage unit where nearly two pounds of illegal fentanyl pills were found, and now the man renting the unit is heading to prison.
A federal judge this week sentenced 52-year-old Rene Arnold Ruiz to 16 years in prison. It is not unfamiliar territory; Ruiz has been to prison several times for drug-related crimes.
Federal prosecutors say the fentanyl pills seized from the storage unit on 28th Street SE were designed to look like prescription Oxycodone…