Cops find enough fentanyl inside Selden man’s rental home to kill 2.2 million

The phone of a dead man led Suffolk County cops to Phillip Gonzalez’s door.

Inside his Selden rental home, prosecutors said, authorities found enough fentanyl to kill 2.2 million people.

Gonzalez, 42, was indicted Thursday on a bevy of charges relating to operating as a major drug trafficker, Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced. The allegations could put him in jail for 15 years to life.

The investigation into Gonzalez’s alleged drug operation began Feb. 17 when officers responded to an East Patchogue home where they found two people unconscious from possible drug overdoses.

One victim was pronounced dead at the scene; the other was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital in Patchogue. At the scene, cops recovered two distinctive glass vials containing powder, as well as two cellphones.

The phones helped investigators identify the number of the individual who allegedly sold the deadly drugs to the user who died.

Three days later, an undercover detective reached out to that number and arranged a buy, Tierney said. Gonzalez allegedly directed the detective to a location in Selden, where he sold the undercover a quantity of powder cocaine, the prosecutor said.

Gonzalez took part in another drug transaction Feb. 24 at the same location, authorities said.

On Feb. 26, officers executed a search warrant at Gonzalez’s rental home in Selden and found more than 4.5 kilograms of fentanyl. More than 2.5 kilograms of that supply also contained xylazine, a large-animal sedative commonly known as “Tranq” that dealers use as a cutting agent to boost profits.

Authorities also seized 1.5 kilograms of crystal meth; about 223 grams of “Tusi,” also called “Pink Cocaine,” a mixture of ketamine and MDMA; 40,820 milligrams of ketamine; 234 grams of cocaine; and five boxes containing hundreds of vials of fentanyl and Tusi.

Authorities said the vials appeared to match the ones found at the East Patchogue overdose scene.

Police also found two loaded handguns, an extended magazine and drug paraphernalia in the house.

In total, investigators seized nearly seven kilograms of narcotics with a street value exceeding $360,000.

“The quantity of fentanyl recovered was so large that it had the potential to kill millions, underscoring the danger posed by those who traffic in this poison,” Tierney said.

Gonzalez is scheduled to be arraigned on dozen of charges before Supreme Court Justice John Collins on April 6 in Riverhead. His most serious charge is operating as a major trafficker.

He remains in jail pending that appearance.

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