Yesterday, employees at Tiburon's Nugget Market spotted a theft in progress, prompting a swift response from the Tiburon Police Department. As confirmed in an Instagram post by the department, officers nabbed 29-year-old Artem Hanawalt leading him to the Marin County Jail. During the crime's dissection, a sinister discovery: Hanawalt was found to be hauling 7.6 grams of fentanyl.
Tiburon Police detailed on Instagram, chronicling the incident and the recovery of the stolen merchandise. The potency of the opioid crisis made manifest in small-town crime sketches a familiar storyboard of a national epidemic intersecting with local felonies.
