{"id":13276,"date":"2017-12-04T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2017-12-04T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T03:25:02","slug":"evidence-containing-dangerous-drug-combinations-submitted-to-tbi-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/12\/04\/evidence-containing-dangerous-drug-combinations-submitted-to-tbi-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence containing Dangerous Drug Combinations submitted to TBI Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60846\" title=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation \" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tbi-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation\" width=\"190\" height=\"180\"><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division are concerned about recent evidence submissions to the TBI crime lab.<\/p>\n<p>Two different pieces of evidence from ongoing drug cases contained a deadly combination of drugs, and Agents are worried that there are more lethal blends of drugs being sold and used that will have deadly consequences.<\/p>\n<p>This a toxic mix of drugs that Forensic Scientists in the TBI labs have rarely, if ever, seen in evidence submissions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_405693\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBI-Lab-receives-Evidence-containing-Dangerous-Drug-Combinations-2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405693\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-405693\" title=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation received two different pieces of evidence from ongoing drug cases contained a deadly combination of drugs.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBI-Lab-receives-Evidence-containing-Dangerous-Drug-Combinations-2-480x286.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation received two different pieces of evidence from ongoing drug cases contained a deadly combination of drugs.\" width=\"480\" height=\"286\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-405693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Bureau of Investigation received two different pieces of evidence from ongoing drug cases contained a deadly combination of drugs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One evidence sample submitted contained a combination of ketamine, tramadol, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Another sample was powder that tested positive for a mixture of methamphetamine, acrylfentanyl, and methoxyacetylfentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are combinations of drugs that don\u2019t even make sense, and they are combinations that are lethal,\u201d says T.J. Jordan, Assistant Director of the TBI\u2019s Drug Investigation Division. \u201cIt\u2019s the latest example of why no illicit street drug is safe. And with combinations of these extremely toxic drugs being mixed with each other, it\u2019s a cocktail that has us very concerned. We need to remind the public again that these already-dangerous drugs are becoming more and more deadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_405694\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBI-Lab-receives-Evidence-containing-Dangerous-Drug-Combinations-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405694\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-405694\" title=\"Evidence containing Dangerous Drug Combinations that was submitted to TBI Lab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBI-Lab-receives-Evidence-containing-Dangerous-Drug-Combinations-1-480x327.jpg\" alt=\"Evidence containing Dangerous Drug Combinations that was submitted to TBI Lab\" width=\"480\" height=\"327\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-405694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evidence containing Dangerous Drug Combinations that was submitted to TBI Lab<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The TBI has joined other partner state and law enforcement agencies in recent months in issuing warnings about the powerful narcotic painkiller fentanyl being identified in samples of heroin, or in clandestine pills compounded to resemble legitimate prescription opioids.<\/p>\n<p>And more recently, evidence submitted to the TBI crime lab has shown that samples of cocaine have tested positive for fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone struggling with drug addiction issues should contact the Tennessee REDLINE at 1.800.889.9789.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division are concerned about recent evidence submissions to the TBI crime lab. Two different pieces of evidence from ongoing drug cases contained a deadly combination of drugs, and Agents are worried that there are more lethal blends of drugs being sold and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11895,3045,6314,8622,9442,11893,5897,11896,284,9059,11897,1842,11892,1841,11894],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-acrylfentanyl","tag-cocaine","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-heroin","tag-ketamine","tag-methamphetamine","tag-methoxyacetylfentanyl","tag-nashville-tn","tag-opioids","tag-t-j-jorgan","tag-tbi","tag-tbi-crime-lab","tag-tennessee-bureau-of-investigation","tag-tramadol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13280,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}