The Justice Department has charged the executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association with attempt to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, and has accuse her of using the police union’s office to communicate with her suppliers and mail the drugs.

valeryl fentanyl is a variation of the powerful synthetic opioid, that law enforcement agencies in multiple states have also been spreading misinformation about touching, sharing videos of officers allegedly collapsing after skin contact with the drug.

Between 2015 and 2023, Segovia allegedly used “her personal and office computers to order thousands of opioid and other pills to her home and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States”, the justice department said.

At least one package of drugs, in 2021, was sent using the UPS account of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, according to a photograph of the shipment, according to the criminal complaint against Segovia.

The packages of controlled drugs were allegedly labeled “Wedding Party Favors”, “Gift Makeup” or “Chocolate and Sweets”, prosecutors said.

Segovia was charged “as part of an ongoing Homeland Security investigation into a network that was shipping controlled substances into the San Francisco Bay Area from abroad”, the justice department said.

Segovia, 64, has worked for the union since 2003, and that “she maintains control over financial and administrative matters associated with the SJPOA, as well as the SJPOA Charitable Foundation”and  “works with Concerns of Police Survivors (Cops) in line of duty deaths”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/30/california-police-union-executive-charged-importing-opioids