Teen girl find more than 14K bags of fentanyl in woods in Delaware

A teenager and a girl found more than 14,000 bags of fentanyl inside grocery bags in a wooded area in New Castle County, Delaware, police said.

An investigation is underway after a teenager and her younger sister found more than 14,000 bags of fentanyl inside two grocery bags in the woods in Claymont, Delaware.

The teen and her 12-year-old sister were walking through the woods off Miles Road in Claymont's Radnor Green neighborhood on Sunday, April 12, around 5:30 p.m. when they discovered two grocery bags.

"Me and my sister decided to go on a walk yesterday and I found a bag," the girl told NBC10. "And we opened it and it was a whole bunch of drugs."

Believing the bags contained illegal drugs, the sisters returned to their home and alerted a family member. That family member then contacted New Castle County Police.

Police responded to the scene and transported the bags to New Castle County Police headquarters. Testing confirmed a total of 14,088 bags of fentanyl were inside two large packages, commonly referred to as “bricks," investigators said. Police told NBC10 the drugs could be worth about $140,000.

"One pinhead of fentanyl can kill a person and here we are talking about over 14,000 bags of suspected fentanyl located here in the woods," New Castle County Police Master Corporal Richard Chambers said.
Investigators said the sisters did the right thing by calling police and not touching the drugs.

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