Local drug agents last week arrested two people after seizing a large amount of synthetic drugs on Savannah’s eastside.
An undercover investigation was launched after Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team agents received reports of a large amount of “Molly,” a pure form of ecstasy, being distributed in the Savannah area, said CNT Agent Gene Harley, the agency’s spokesman.
During that investigation 21-year-old Darius Collins and 22-year-old Lance Flesher were arrested August 21 and charged with multiple felony drug charges after agents seized a large amount of designer drugs known as bath salts, Harley said.
The suspects remain in the Chatham County jail.
Harley said bath salts are sometimes sold as “Molly” — the powder or crystal form of MDMA, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a chemical drug most commonly known for its use in Ecstasy — but are actually designer drugs often containing substituted cathinones, which have effects similar to amphetamine and cocaine.
The seized bath salts, Harley said, held a street value of about $300,000 if sold as “Molly.”
It was the second major bath salts-related bust CNT has reported this year. In February, agents intercepted a vehicle traveling through Chatham County from New Jersey and found one kilogram of the drugs. Harley said that case has been taken over by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Harley said bath salts are becoming more popular across the country, but they are a dangerous, Schedule I narcotic under Controlled Substances Act. They are highly addictive and have no legitimate use in the U.S., he added.