{"id":1375464,"date":"2024-12-10T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1375464"},"modified":"2024-12-17T04:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:30:27","slug":"more-than-400-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1375464","title":{"rendered":"More than 400 fentanyl pills seized in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1375465\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230627-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230627-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230627-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230627.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u2013 A 35-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were arrested after authorities found hundreds of pills containing fentanyl on Tuesday in a Longview home. According to our news partner KETK, the Longview Police Department, the Gregg County Organized Drug Enforcement Unit and Longview SWAT conducted a search on a home in the 900 block of Doyle Street.<\/p>\n<p>The police department said around 440 counterfeit Percocet fentanyl pills, two stolen handguns and a rifle were found during the search. Desmond Simmons, 35 of Longview, and Baylin Harris, 20 of Ore City, were arrested and booked into the Gregg County Jail.<!--more--> Simmons was charged with manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and two counts of firearm theft. Harris was charged with possession of a controlled substance and has since bonded out after paying a $5,000 bond.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said fake pills are made to look like prescription oxycodone, which is used for pain relief, but contain fentanyl or methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFake pills are more lethal than ever before. DEA lab testing reveals that 2 out of every 5 pills with fentanyl contain a potentially lethal dose,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage all community members to reach out to the Longview Police Department if you see increased or unusual traffic in your neighborhood at 903-237-1199,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1375468\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230757-550x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230757-550x219.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230757-225x90.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230757.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 A 35-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were arrested after authorities found hundreds of pills containing fentanyl on Tuesday in a Longview home. According to our news partner KETK, the Longview Police Department, the Gregg County Organized Drug Enforcement Unit and Longview SWAT conducted a search on a home in the 900 block &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1375464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than 400 fentanyl pills seized in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1375466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230627-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 17:16:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-10_230627-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375464"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375898,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375464\/revisions\/1375898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}