Drug Bust: Passenger from Concord of the Seas Arrested for Possession of Heroin and Fentanyl

In keeping with a native information station in Houston, Texas, the U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) in Galveston discovered medication whereas performing a baggage examination of a cruise passenger following the return of a cruise ship to the Port of Galveston Cruise Port on April twentieth.

Whereas checking the bags, CBP officers reportedly discovered a number of vape pens with marijuana THC and a number of other prescription capsule bottles. Two of the bottles reportedly contained a powdery substance which examined optimistic for fentanyl and heroin, in response to a press launch by CBP. 

One other native information station in Houston reported that the cruise passenger was apprehended with greater than 70 grams of heroin blended with fentanyl and almost 100 grams of THC vape oil, in response to CBP officers.

CBP caption: Heroin and fentanyl have been seized from a cruise passenger in Galveston on Sunday, April twentieth.

CBP didn’t launch the identify of the passenger arrested. USA Immediately reported that the passenger, a 63-year-old U.S. citizen, was turned over to native authorities after he was arrested. The Port of Galveston Police Division recognized the person as a resident of Henderson, Texas who was charged with possession of a managed substance, a second-degree felony.

Though USA Immediately determined to not determine the passenger, a evaluation of a database displaying the id of individuals arrested final Sunday by the Galveston Police Division, indicated that one 63-year-old man was arrested on the port of Galveston for possession of medication. Jeffrey Don Conkey, age 63, was recognized within the on-line database. A search of his identify revealed that the Galveston County Day by day Information lined the drug arrest in additional element than all different newspapers. It confirmed that Conkey, of Henderson, Texas was coming back from a cruise to Mexico when “federal legislation officers reported discovering 2.5 ounces (over 70 grams) of heroin blended with fentanyl, and three.4 ounces (over 95 grams) of THC vape oil in his baggage Sunday on the Port of Galveston.”

“Conkey, a passenger on a Royal Caribbean ship, was picked for a extra detailed than ordinary screening as a result of he had been ‘encountered for bringing marijuana by way of a border crossing again in 2018,’ in response to a possible trigger affidavit.”

Conkey was booked within the Galveston County Jail and later launched after he posted a $75,000 bond.

The CBP didn’t determine the identify of the cruise ship the place the particular person disembarked. Nevertheless, the one cruise ship to reach on the port of Galveston on Sunday, April twentieth was Royal Caribbean’s Concord of the Seas which returned from a seven day cruise to Roatan, Honduras and Costa Maya, Mexico. It isn’t uncommon for federal legislation enforcement to not disclose the identify of the cruise ship to keep away from inflicting embarrassment to the cruise line.

In keeping with the CDC and the CBP, artificial opioids like fentanyl are the first explanation for overdose deaths in america.

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Picture credit score: Medication – CBP press launch by way of KHOU 11 (Houston); CBP press launch; Jeffrey Don Conkey – Busted Newspaper; Concord of the Seas – Kees Tom commons / wikimedia; Concord of the Seas at Galveston port – Houston Public Media.