Plastic pipe containing thousands of fentanyl pills discovered at Kansas workplace

Thousands of fentanyl pills were confiscated by Kansas authorities after they were discovered inside plastic pipe in Coffeyville, Kansas.

Detectives with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office were informed that someone had found a PVC full of blue pills at their workplace Friday, a news release from the sheriff’s office said.

The detectives took the PVC pipe that contained the pills and later determined they were fentanyl made to look oxycodone pills, the release said.

Investigators counted 5,354 fentanyl pills. The street value of the seizure is estimated to be over $300,000, according to the release.