KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Last week, Kansas City, Kansas, police reportedly made one of the metro's largest fentanyl busts in the last five years at a short-term rental home in downtown.

According to KCKPD, on Thursday, Oct. 16, the Narcotics and Special Operations Unit served a warrant at a downtown rental home, where they found over $100,000 worth of drugs -- including 9.2 pounds of fentanyl -- and several firearms.

“This was our biggest, if not the metro’s, biggest fentanyl seizure since we began tracking the drug in late 2020,” said Shawn Magee, captain of the KCKPD Narcotics Unit.

“One kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill thousands of people; we seized a little over four kilograms. You don’t need to be good at math to know, this one operation saved a lot of lives.”

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