Athens man arrested with enough fentanyl to kill thousands

By Joe Johnson

Eric Maurice Fair, 44, of Franklin Street was recently arrested while in possession of enough fentanyl to kill thousands of people.

His arrest on August 21st resulted from a police traffic stop on West Broad Street on a car in which he was a passenger.

An incident report indicates that Fair was in possession of a bag that contained the fentanyl along with cocaine, methamphetamine, and THC oil.

An arrest warrant states that the fentanyl was in two baggies that each weighed 4.5 grams.

A lethal dose is just 2 mg, meaning 9 grams contains about 4,500 lethal doses of fentanyl.

Fair was charged with trafficking fentanyl, trafficking cocaine, possession of methamphetamine, and possession of a controlled substance.

He is being held without bail in pretrial detention.