PORT ANGELES – Two people were arrested this week in a drug emphasis operation in Port Angeles.

Tuesday, 32-year-old Amanda Dorame and 29-year-old Ali J. Smith, both of Port Angeles, were taken in for possession of fentanyl with the intent to deliver.

The arrests were a part of an emphasis led by the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team in the area of 3rd and Laurel Streets where there’s been large reports of drug use, overdoses and property crime.

Officials say over the course of several days, OPNET detectives spotted multiple hand-to-hand transactions between a variety of people and the van in which Dorame and Smith live.

The van eventually was driven to a businesses for which Dorame has a trespassing order. Port Angeles police and Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies stopped the van and took Dorame into custody for criminal trespass. Smith was taken into custody for her six active arrest warrants.

OPNET detectives obtained a search warrant for the couple’s van. That search yielded approximately 180 suspected fentanyl pills, suspected fentanyl in chalk form, cash, baggies, scales, burnt foil, and other drug paraphernalia.

The operation also resulted in the arrest of two other individuals with outstanding arrest warrants. One of those individuals attempted to flee from responding PAPD officers and was booked for two warrants and obstructing a Law Enforcement Officer. Another individual was contacted due to drug activity in a vehicle. That male gave a false name when PAPD officers contacted him, and was subsequently booked for two warrants and Making False Statements to a Law Enforcement Officer.