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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 200
BY SENATOR FOIL
A RESOLUTION
To commend and congratulate the extraordinary efforts of the East Baton Parish Sheriff Sid
Gautreaux and the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office (EBRSO) Narcotic
Division for their exceptional investigative efforts as well as their aggressive arrests
and prosecution of fentanyl dealers in the Greater Baton Rouge Metro Area.
WHEREAS, the chief law enforcement officer in the Parish of East Baton Rouge is
Sheriff Sid J. Gautreaux III (Sheriff Gautreaux), who was elected in 2007; and
WHEREAS, immediately upon being elected to the Office of Sheriff of EBRSO,
Sheriff Gautreaux began to prioritize the increase of the narcotics division's investigation of
drug dealers who sell a wide variety of lethal drugs and substances (originally, primarily
heroin, and now fentanyl and xylazine), which are often mixed with other varieties of "street
drugs"; and
WHEREAS, shortly after his election, Sheriff Gautreaux noted the influx of heroin
distributed and sold in Louisiana's cities, towns, and rural areas, sometimes to be used by
intravenous injection, by snorting, or smoking, and frequently the drug users did not know
they were consuming heroin, often resulting in a fatal overdose; and
WHEREAS, in approximately 2016, a new and extremely powerful drug named
"fentanyl" and its analogues began to be detected in toxicology reports of drug overdose
victims; and
WHEREAS, fentanyl is forty to one hundred times more powerful than morphine and
fifty times more powerful than heroin, and fentanyl is used by drug dealers to "amp up" their
drug products of all kinds, almost always without the knowledge of the drug buyer; and
WHEREAS, when fentanyl became available to drug dealers throughout the state of
Louisiana, the number of poisonings and overdose deaths in the state from fentanyl began
to increase exponentially and continues to increase exponentially; and
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WHEREAS, in early 2021, Sheriff Gautreaux met with the commander of the
EBRSO narcotics division, Captain Tanner Jenkins, to devise new and enhanced reactive
practices, policies, and drug enforcement methods to supplement and enhance the EBRSO's
and the narcotics division's existing proactive methods; and
WHEREAS, the efforts of Sheriff Gautreaux, Captain Tanner Jenkins, and the
EBRSO narcotics division have resulted in numerous drug enforcement and weapons
seizures, almost all of which occurred in East Baton Rouge Parish between January 2022 and
May 2023, including 24 pounds, 8.6 ounces of fentanyl powder; 110,000 lethal doses of
pressed fentanyl pills; 4.865 pounds of heroin; 5 pounds of cocaine; 2,318 oxycodone
tablets; 522 Xanax tablets; 56.9 pounds of methamphetamine; 416 Adderall or amphetamine
pills; 25 pill presses; 213 firearms, including machine guns and fully automatic pistols, many
of which have been forensically linked to previous murders and shootings; and 201 felony
arrests; and
WHEREAS, Captain Tanner Jenkins of EBRSO narcotics division testified during
the 2023 Regular Session before the House of Representatives Committee on the
Administration of Criminal Justice and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary C that the
EBRSO narcotics division does not investigate drug users and addicts, but focuses all of its
efforts on dealers who sell fentanyl and other deadly drugs to other dealers.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
hereby commends and congratulates the outstanding drug enforcement efforts and operations
of Sheriff Gautreaux, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, and all of its employees,
Captain Tanner Jenkins, commander of the EBRSO narcotics division, and all of its
employees, agents, and unnamed personnel.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
to Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and Captain Tanner Jenkins.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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