Baltimore authorities arrested six people and seized a kilogram of fentanyl, guns and $16,127 in cash as part of a major drug bust.

City police said this amount of fentanyl could have had a widespread and significant impact.

“According to the (Drug Enforcement Administration), it could kill approximately 500,000 people,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said.

Police on Wednesday said the Southwest District Action Team raided houses, one in the 1800 block of west Lombard Street in Southwest Baltimore and another in the 900 block of Dalton Avenue in the Eastpoint neighborhood of Baltimore County, last week. It was all part of a monthlong investigation that focused on the Wilkens Avenue and Dover Street areas of the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood.

“Basically, it started with a

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