‘Fentanyl nexus’: Portland police’s bike squad faces ‘explosion’ of open-air drug use
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As Portland reckons with an "explosion" of open-air drug use, Fox News rode along with the police bureau's bike squad. Here's what we saw in the City of Roses.
"Let me get you a hundred dollar ticket. You'll be out of here in a second," Baer tells the driver before walking back to his bicycle. Officer David Baer photographs suspected fentanyl he confiscated from a man sitting in a Subaru outside a hotel in downtown Portland, Aug. 31, 2023. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Bike squad officer David Baer speaks to a man suspected of smoking fentanyl in a car parked outside a hotel in downtown Portland. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Portland bike squad officer Donny Mathew leads a handcuffed man away from tents to a patrol vehicle. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Officers Donny Mathew and David Baer respond to an argument in a homeless encampment in downtown Portland, Aug. 31, 2023. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Officer David Baer checks on a man in downtown Portland on Aug. 31, 2023. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital) Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.