Texas Sheriff: Fentanyl Should Be Classified as ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’

Police found 150,000 fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of $750,000. Courtesy of Tulare County Sheriff's Office

Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson in Texas said that fentanyl coming across the U.S.–Mexico border should be deemed a “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD).

“Fentanyl is poison that’s being introduced to our country. The illicit manufacturing of this stuff has just gotten crazy with the potency of it,” he told Fox News over the weekend. “The deception by the drug dealers to mix it into the pressed pills trying to sell it as a legal drug that’s a prescription medication.”