Deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff s Office arrested two people Friday, seizing 2.3 pounds of methamphetamine and 800 fentanyl pills in the process, spokesman Sgt. Jason Garett announced Tuesday.
A man was arrested Sunday near downtown Colorado Springs after detectives seized about 13,000 fentanyl pills from him.
Detectives from the the Colorado Springs Police Department s Metro Vice, Narcotics and Intelligence Division, along with officers from the Downtown Area Response Team and agents from the Department of Homeland Security, apprehended Oswaldo Beltran, 44, after intercepting a shipment of pills brought to Colorado Springs from California.
Beltran was arrested for unlawful distribution of a controlled substance.