Cops mistake sugar for fentanyl

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When North Carolina police last month announced the seizure of 13 pounds of fentanyl, they estimated that the narcotics haul had a street value in excess of $2 million and could yield dealers hundreds of thousands of bags of the deadly opioid.

Turns out, however, the “fentanyl” was actually sugar.

After heralding the confiscation at a Wilmington home as one of the largest fentanyl seizures in the state’s history, New Hanover County investigators have revealed that a field test of the white powder (seen above) resulted in a false positive at the time of an early-July raid.

A subsequent test at a state crime lab revealed that powder was sugar. The field test used by police was manufactured by Scott Company Drug Testing, a Texas firm that sells a variety of narcotics testing kits to law enforcement agencies nationwide.