Guilford County sweep seizes fentanyl, cocaine and 17 firearms, sheriff says

More than 2,000 grams of fentanyl and cocaine, plus 17 firearms, came out of three Greensboro addresses in a Guilford County narcotics operation that sheriff’s officials said struck at street-level drug and gun activity in the city.

The Guilford County Narcotics Task Force and the Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit served search warrants April 14 at 2603 Wildwood Drive, 303 Kirk Road and 5032 Red Poll Drive. Investigators said the searches turned up 1,055 grams of fentanyl and 950 grams of cocaine, along with 17 guns. Six of the weapons were reported stolen, and four had illegal switches that can turn a firearm into a fully automatic weapon.

Sheriff’s officials identified one of the people arrested as Jayquann Quentez Smith, 35. He was charged with multiple felony drug-trafficking and firearm offenses and was being held without bond at the Guilford County Detention Center. Two other people were also arrested in connection with the case, though their names were not included in the information released about the sweep.

The scale of the seizure matters because it reached beyond a simple arrest count. Fentanyl in more than kilogram quantities, paired with nearly a kilogram of cocaine and stolen guns, points to a market that carried real overdose and violence risks across Greensboro neighborhoods. The presence of conversion devices raises the stakes further, since those switches can transform ordinary handguns into weapons capable of rapid fire.

The task force involved the Sheriff’s Office, Greensboro Police Department, the State Bureau of Investigation and the DEA, a mix of local, state and federal agencies that signals how seriously investigators treated the case. For Guilford County residents, the immediate effect is the removal of a large cache of drugs and weapons from three specific addresses, though the larger question is whether the operation interrupted a broader supply network or took down only one part of it.