Eureka Police POP Two City Residents on Charges of Fentanyl Trafficking and Offer Eye-Popping Month-End Narcan Stats
Photos: EPD.
Press release from the Eureka Police Department:
In the early morning hours of October 5th, 2021, Detectives with the Eureka Police
Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Team (POP), with the assistance from Agents
with the Humboldt County Drug Task Force (HCDTF) and the California Highway
Patrol Garberville office made a traffic stop on a vehicle on Highway 101 just south of
Richardson’s Grove in southern Humboldt County.
Boggs.
POP Detectives had been investigating the driver, 50-year-old Eureka resident Toni
Deann Boggs for trafficking Fentanyl into Humboldt County from the Bay Area. The
passenger in the vehicle was identified as 52-year-old Eureka resident Thomas
McLafferty.
Throughout the course of the investigation it was determined that Boggs had made four
previous trips to the Bay Area over the past week to pick up narcotics. Detectives had
previously obtained a search warrant for Boggs, her vehicle and her residence on the
1300 block of Long Street in Eureka.
During the service of the search warrant agents located 3.1 ounces of Fentanyl, 2.8
grams of Methamphetamine and .66 grams of heroin in the vehicle. During the service
of the search warrant on Long Street in Eureka, detectives also located a digital scale
and packaging materials.
Boggs was arrested and booked and is being held without bail at the Humboldt County
Jail for the following charges:
Transportation of controlled substances for sale
Transportation of controlled substances across non-contiguous counties
Possession of controlled substance for sale
Conspiracy to commit a crime
McLafferty.
McLafferty was arrested and booked and is being held without bail at the Humboldt
County Jail for the following charges:
Transportation of controlled substances for sale
Transportation of controlled substances across non-contiguous counties
Conspiracy to commit a crime
Humboldt County has seen a substantial increase in illicit Fentanyl distribution,
possession and overdose cases, including an alarming number of overdose deaths.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid and a Schedule II narcotic. Fentanyl is often added to
heroin and other drugs to increase their potency and can cause accidental overdose.
In just the month of September 2021, Police Officers with the Eureka Police
Department administered Narcan (Naloxone) to eleven different subjects who had
overdosed on opiates which is double any other month since the inception of the
Narcan program. The Eureka Police Department believes the substantially high number
of Narcan administrations is directly related to the Fentanyl that is flooding our
community.