Over 1,000 pills seized in undercover drug bust

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — A 57-year-old woman from Oakland Township was arrested after police said they discovered more than 1,150 methamphetamine pills and over $37,000 in cash in her home.

The woman, who has not yet been identified publicly by police, was arrested by members of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office’s undercover Narcotics Enforcement Team Jan. 9. At press time, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said the woman could be arraigned as soon as Saturday, Jan. 11.

“The saying we have, “one pill can kill,” comes directly from situations like this,” Bouchard said in a press release. “You have a pill press pressing drugs into the form of something they are not. They in fact contain totally different drugs which may be fatal. In this case, there were pills that looked like Adderall, but were, in fact, methamphetamine.”

The Narcotics Enforcement Team reportedly had been investigating the case for two months before serving a search warrant on the woman’s residence on Lyndon in Oakland Township. Detectives seized 1,153 pressed methamphetamine pills resembling Adderall, 22 morphine pills and $37,217 in cash, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release.

“As a result of these situations we have seen young people that thought they were buying Adderall to help them study, in fact got fentanyl or other drugs and died from one pill,” Bouchard said in a prepared statement. “People like this are literally selling a Russian roulette pill and need to be held accountable.”