Orange County Officials, Victims Share Uphill Battle With California’s Lax Stance on Fentanyl
SANTA ANA, Calif.—Dozens of photographs of once-smiling people who have recently died of fentanyl overdoses lined the walls of the shared courtyard of the Orange County District Attorney and sheriff department April 24, where officials and loved ones gathered for a Crime Victims Rights ceremony.
“I’ve spent a lot of my career all over the world whether it was Afghanistan in the army, working in South America as an administrator, or also dealing with drug issues as a federal prosecutor here in Orange County prosecuting drug cases, but nothing like the [drug] epidemic we have seen now,” Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) told the roughly 100 attendance via a pre-recorded video. “To what’s caused by, created by, and contributed to Fentanyl.”…