A family in Washington says they started experiencing mysterious headaches and stomach aches after their car was stolen and returned with high levels of meth and fentanyl without their knowledge.
Jake Culver, of Pierce County, said his family was initially relieved when police brought back their 2002 Ford F350 pickup truck as good as new after it was stolen.
The father of two said he had driven the car several times until his 5- and 10-year-olds began experiencing stomach aches and sleep disturbances, with Culver also experiencing strange headaches, Fox 13 reported.
A friend of Culver’s wife recommended that the car be tested for drugs, with subsequent tests revealing that the car had traces of meth that exceeded the state’s safe exposure limit by eight times.
It also tested positive twice the safety limit for fentanyl.
“My wife just cried when I told her the test results,” Culver told Fox. “My heart is sad. If he had inhaled fentanyl or something like that, I mean, who knows where we’d be right now.”
Culvers’ 2002 Ford F350 pickup truck was stolen and later recovered by police. Pierce County Sheriff’s Department
Jake Culver said he was shocked and his wife sobbed when they learned their car tested positive for high levels of fentanyl and meth. Jake Culver / Facebook
Culver blasted his insurance company for failing to test his truck for drugs, which he says is a service provided to recovered stolen vehicles.
“I would expect the people who are paid to help us through this problem to actually do their job, and that’s more surprising, frankly, than drug use and car theft,” he said.
“We can’t undo the exposure my family experienced, but we hope to educate others who are getting their cars back or will get their cars back that they need to test these things every time.”
Following the rise in fentanyl and opioid abuse in the US, car maintenance and cleaning workers have said more and more stolen vehicles have been drug-tested, KNDU reported.
The vehicle had eight times the national safe exposure limit for meth. Pierce County Sheriff’s Department
Culver said she developed headaches after driving her two children, who both had stomach aches and sleep disturbances. Pierce County Sheriff’s Department
“If only [fentanyl] the level of purity is there, it can be fatal,” Bio Management Northwest head John Thomas Stavros, who tested the cars for drugs, told the outlet.
AEI Decon, another company that treats cars found with drug marks, lists meth exposure as a serious risk for children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.
Symptoms of meth exposure can include burning eyes, throat and nose irritation, fever, rapid heartbeat, hallucinations, moderate or severe headache and impaired mental ability.
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