'Enough to kill everyone in Nash County,' 2 kilograms of meth, heroin laced with fentanyl seized in traffic stop

According to Sheriff Keith Stone, the interdiction task force made a traffic stop in Nash County, where they seized two kilograms of drugs.

The drugs, which were wrapped in a plastic trash bag, were seized from a black pickup truck that was stopped along U.S. Highway 264.

Deputies arrested 38-year-old Miguel Canela after the bust.

The drugs are being sent to a state lab, but early indications showed the drugs were heroin and methamphetamine, both laced with fentanyl.

Stone oversaw the preliminary testing process to see what was at the bust in this particular case.

"I'm not surprised," Stone said. "I see heroin. I see cocaine. All of it's being laced with fentanyl now."

According to Stone, the amount of fentanyl seized was "enough to kill everyone in Nash County."

Because of the amount of fentanyl seized, Stone said the bust saved several lives.

"When you stop that drug on the highway and it does not get into the community and it doesn't get into a family member or anybody's hands, it's a success," Stone said.

Canela is being held on $3 million bond and facing several drug trafficking charges.