Drugs

 Newsweek - Police in Palm Beach County have discovered the presence of a synthetic opioid that is considered up to 50 times more potent than fentanyl. The drug, N-Desethyl Isotonitazene, or ISO, has been detected in only one other city in the United States, according to Mike Jachles, West Palm Beach Police Department's public information officer. Philadelphia's health department said in a March alert that the drug was first detected in the Pennsylvania city in December 2022.

West Palm Beach police's Organized Crime Unit seized 20 kilograms of ISO while conducting a search warrant on a house and storage unit in the Palm Beach County area. Jachles said that police first received a tip in February that led to the seizure and the arrest of one individual, who was not named. Police estimate that the ISO found is worth roughly $1.6 million. Several guns and ammunition were also retrieved in the arrest.