The battle against fentanyl continues in our communities. The Quad-Cities Drug Task Force, constantly investigating, and going after suspected drug dealers.

“Our number one focus is on trafficking,” Sheriff Brett Myers said. “Those people that are bringing the drugs into our community and selling it to the people who have the drug problem.”

On Thursday, April 21, the task force arrested a 25-year-old Clarkston woman who they say possessed and intended to deliver various drugs, including fentanyl.

Tiffany Brown was booked into the Asotin County Jail. Detectives executed a search warrant at a home in the 700 block on 10th Street in Clarkston. Detectives seized more than 13 grams of meth, 3.55 grams of heroin, 31 fentanyl pills, 7 hydrocodone pills, 52 trazodone pills, a scale, packaging material, smoking device and $185.00 in cash.

” They’re preying on people that are most vulnerable," said Sheriff Myers. "It's a scourge to our community. So, if we feel we can spend our resources on people like that, we can limit the amount of drugs in our community."

Fentanyl is prevalent in our region, just three weeks ago, a traffic stop in Colfax netted 500 fentanyl pills in addition to heroin.

Whitman Cunty Sheriff’s Office deputies say the illegal narcotics were intended for distribution in the Pullman area. A 31-year-old Pullman man was subsequently arrested.

In the Asotin County Jail an inmate overdose on just one fentanyl pill last week. The fentanyl was smuggled in by another inmate the night before.