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Sacramento Sheriff's deputy fentanyl in service in 2023, investigations are determined

Sacramento County -A representative of Sacramento County Patrouille, which was assumed that he suffered a chemical exposure in 2023 and was revived by an opioid reversal medication, according to a sheriff office, the internal affairs of a sheriff office, actually led to investigations of a sheriff office.

According to a letter contained in the report, the deputy Marvin Morales resigned from the department in February 2024, referring to “personal reasons” under the internal examinations.

On more than 400 pages with documents, photos and videos, the Sheriff office published the results of the internal assessment, including the recommendation that moral is fired.

In August 2023, Morales confiscated a smoke pipe for glass detours and gave out an offense for the possession of narcotics with utensils. In his report, according to the knowledge of the Sheriff office, when he said he said he “safely disposed of the glass trope at the central area station”.

Instead, documents stated that Morales admitted to keep the pipe and to keep methamphetamine residues from the pipe in his house three to four times in the course of two months.

Morales said that the use of methamphetamine gave him “the” energy “that he had to do to write in customer reports.

On October 24, 2023, Morales carried out a suspicious suspicious stop and narcotics obtained in this encounter, which was believed to be methamphetamine. He gave the suspect an offense to have methamphetamine.

Hours later, Morales on surveillance cameras on the Sheriff's Office Central Area Station will be seen in a public bathroom that was closed to the public at that time. Moments later finds another deputy moral on the bottom of the bathroom in the possession of the presumed meth, which he caught on the same day.

The substance, from which it was assumed that it is meth, was fentanyl, and Morales suffered from overdosing fentanyl.

The MPs began life -saving measures, including the issue of several doses of naloxone or Narcon, before moral was transported to the hospital.

At the time, CBS13 was outside the station because the first reports about the incident were that moral was unintentionally exposed to chemicals.

In the internal review of the sheriff it was found that Morales “used his authority position to confiscate narcotics and narcotics with utensils of members of the public and blamed them for the violations”.

The actions of moral are described in a file as “shockingly cruel”. The recommendation from the Sheriff office was that the employment of moral was ended.