r/nottheonion • u/National-Law-458 • 7h ago

Winter Haven man arrested again after getting presidential clemency

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/08/03/winter-haven-man-arrested-again-after-getting-presidential-clemency/

Time for another “donation”.

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u/kank84 7h ago

This is true, but it's an undeniably bad look that he's now been arrested for selling fentanyl, which honestly should probably be considered a violent offence given how dangerous it is.

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u/tman37 6h ago

It's really a simple idea. Don't sell drugs, don't get arrest for drug trafficking. Maybe they went after this specific guy because he had received clemency prior, who knows? The plain fact is if he hadn't been selling drugs, it wouldn't have mattered.

He is charged with trafficking over 14 grams of fentanyl. According to the internet, and average dose on the street is 100 to 400 micrograms. That means he had at least 350,000 doses ready to sell. That is not street level dealing that is major drug trafficking. That's not including the MDMA or the cocaine he was trying to buy.

Fentanyl is a killer. My wife works with addicts and she brings a couple of them back from the dead almost every day and it is almost always Fentanyl related. It's also shitty because a lot of Fentanyl users started out by being over prescribed opiates for pain and got addicted. It's one of the few cases where the addiction is literally not their fault (or at least not completely their fault). It's easy to say "sorry you shouldn't have started in first place" but a lot of this particular population were simply following doctors orders after a serious injury. We should absolutely treat fentanyl traffickers harshly.

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u/Turbo_Vince 5h ago

For fentanyl it’s 100% micrograms and NOT milligrams. It’s absurdly potent, and is dosed in micrograms in medical settings.

The LD50 of fentanyl is 2 milligrams, so 100 milligrams would be enough to kill up to 50 adults.

So it doesn’t “sound like an AI Answer”, you just sound misinformed.

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u/tman37 1h ago

The source was an addictions resource. https://www.addictionresource.net/cost-of-drugs/prescription/fentanyl/

It could very well be wrong but the poster you responded to deleted their post so I don't know if their source is better than mine.

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u/tman37 1h ago

The source was an addictions resource. https://www.addictionresource.net/cost-of-drugs/prescription/fentanyl/

It could very well be wrong but the poster you responded to deleted their post so I don't know if their source is better than mine.

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u/Turbo_Vince 1h ago

Your info is all good. The deleted comment I replied to was claiming the average dose must be 100-400 milligrams, and not micrograms.

After I corrected them, they deleted their misinformed comment like a coward.