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DEA Crushes Largest Fentanyl Bust In Historical past
… Hundreds of Capsules, Hundreds of thousands of {Dollars} Seized
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Federal brokers simply pulled off the sweetest sting in DEA historical past … by snagging greater than 400 kilos of fentanyl off the road — together with weapons and money that unfold throughout 5 states!!!
On Tuesday, Lawyer Normal Pamela Bondi mentioned the Drug Enforcement Company delivered a crushing blow to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, which held operations in New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.
The investigation concluded with the arrest of 16 individuals, as brokers seized the entire equipment and caboodle.
Feds additionally confiscated over $4 million in chilly exhausting money, a number of hundred thousand extra in belongings, and lots of of kilos of meth … whereas dozens of firearms had been additionally taken within the raids.
Nonetheless, Bondi gaffed final week when she reported the Trump Administration was accountable in its first 100 days for saving 258 million lives in America — that is two-thirds of the U.S. inhabitants — via its fentanyl seizures thus far … however with opioids remaining a lethal risk, progress continues to be clearly being made.