Police say they seized two guns and suspected fentanyl from a northeast Salem hotel room on Tuesday after arresting a 35-year-old man.
Daniel R. Northcutt of Salem was arrested on accusations of possessing a firearm as a felon, unlawful possession of a short-barreled firearm and fentanyl, and unlawful delivery of a fentanyl.
Officers saw Northcutt around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday near a hotel in the 3300 block of Northeast Astoria Way before he went into the hotel, which police didn’t identify.
“Initially, Northcutt refused to exit the room but subsequently surrendered without incident,” according to the statement.the Salem Police Department said in a statement Wednesday.
Officers searched his room and his vehicle. They said they seized a handgun, a sawed-off shotgun, and 1.5 ounces and 50 pills of a drug police suspected was fentanyl. They also seized $1,000 in cash.
The estimated lethal dose of fentanyl is about 2 milligrams, according to a July 2023 Salem police affidavit. The amount Northcutt is accused of possessing works out to over 21,262 potentially lethal doses.
Marion County Court records showed Northcutt also had outstanding warrants in two felony cases after violating probation conditions and then failing to appear in court.
He was booked into the Marion County Jail, where he was being held without bail as of Wednesday afternoon, the jail’s roster showed.
Northcutt previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver fentanyl, second-degree criminal mischief and possessing a firearm as a felon in 2023, and first-degree theft in 2018, court records showed.
Contact reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian: [email protected] or 503-929-3053.
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Ardeshir Tabrizian has covered criminal justice and housing for Salem Reporter since September 2021. As an Oregon native, his award-winning watchdog journalism has traversed the state. He has done reporting for The Oregonian, Eugene Weekly and Malheur Enterprise.
