A man is heading to prison after police found almost two pounds of illegal fentanyl pills in a storage unit in Grand Rapids.
Police stopped 52-year-old Rene Arnold Ruiz in Branch County and found a water bottle containing fentanyl pills and cocaine.
Officers then headed to a storage unit Ruiz was renting and found 8,500 fentanyl pills and nearly a pound of heroin. The drugs were being stored in locked suitcases.
Ruiz was indicted last summer and pleaded guilty in January. He was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in prison.
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