Deputy Processes Fentanyl at Drug Bust, Brush with Powerful Drug Istantantly Leaves Him on …

News Kipp Jones, The Western Journal August 7, 2021 at 5:04pm The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department this week shared a video of one of its officers coming into contact with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, and the situation shows just how dangerous the drug is. One deputy who accidentally touched the substance during a recent bust barely had time to process what he had seen when he collapsed and overdosed. On the SDCS Vimeo page, the department said that on July 3, deputy David Faiivae of the San Marcos Sheriff’s Station in the northern part of the county encountered the drug after an arrest. In a video showing how hard police officers fight to keep opioids off the streets, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said Faiivae almost died following the encounter. Corporal Scott Crane in the department’s video said it was a routine day until Faiivae saw a white powder in a vehicle that he suspected to be drugs. It all went downhill from there. Body camera video shows how quickly the deputy collapsed merely from touching fentanyl. “That stuff’s no joke, dude, it’s super dangerous,” Crane cautioned Faiivae on the body cam. But it was too late for…
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