BEND, OR -- Two people living in an RV on Hunnell Road were arrested Thursday, suspected of trafficking fentanyl and meth on the north end of Bend. The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Street Crimes Unit executed a search warrant and say detectives found a commercial quantity of fake Oxycodone pills, likely containing fentanyl. They also seized a commercial quantity of suspected methamphetamine and two firearms. They arrested 49-year-old Thomas Dillard and 28-year-old Jaelene Lyman.

District Attorney Steve Gunnels told KBND News this week, "Fentanyl is found in just about every drug arrest. It’s mixed with heroin, it’s mixed with methamphetamine, and it’s found just by itself in bags of either powder or pills." Experts say a small amount of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, can be deadly. It's considered 50 times stronger than heroin.

"Drug dealers don’t care about the safety of it; they just care about making money. And the users are paying the price," says Gunnels, "We have drug overdoses every week here, and it’s typically people 18-40 years old. There’s no quality control on these drugs, the potency varies from very low to very high and there’s no way to predict how it’s going to go."

In the Hunnell Road case, both suspects were booked into the Deschutes County Jail on numerous drug related charges. Dillard is also a sex offender and is accused of being out of compliance with his registration.