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Fentanyl Discovered In Business Parking Lot

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A McKenzie business discovered a baggie in the parking lot on June 29 around 5:23 p.m. and the employees phoned McKenzie Police Department. An employee had discovered the suspicious material in the front parking lot of the Highland Drive business.

Officer Tanner Jackson went to the location, where he discovered a baggie with five individually wrapped chunks of an unknown substance. The bag was taken to the McKenzie Police Department, where a test revealed it was 1.7 grams of Fentanyl. The store personnel were advised of the necessary precautions in case they handled it. The matter is under investigation.