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Alleged poly-drug dealer arrested in Baton Rouge, almost 10,000 doses of fentanyl seized

1 day 2 hours 48 minutes ago Friday, April 11 2025 Apr 11, 2025 April 11, 2025 11:02 AM April 11, 2025 in News
Source: WBRZ

BATON ROUGE — Two people were arrested, including an alleged poly-drug dealer, after a search of a trailer yielded thousands of lethal doses of fentanyl. 

Over the last two months, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office investigated an alleged drug dealer, 42-year-old Rashee Scruggs, and a property on Peerless Street. Deputies executed a search warrant at the home Thursday. 

During the search, deputies looked through a mobile home, a travel trailer and a shed. Amid several items of drug paraphernalia, they found powder and crack cocaine, marijuana, hydrocodone, oxycodone and just over two pounds of fentanyl — 9,662 lethal doses, deputies said. 

Scruggs and another suspect, 20-year-old Cynthia Gross, were arrested on a slew of drug charges, as well as money laundering, operation of a clandestine lab and possession of a stolen firearm. 

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