One Pill Can Kill - DEA.gov
WEBIn 2023, DEA seized more than 80 million fentanyl-laced fake pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. The 2023 seizures are equivalent to more than 390 million lethal doses of fentanyl. The 2024 fentanyl seizures represent over 280 million deadly doses. Millions of Fentanyl Pills Seized. + 39,700,000.
Fourteen Indicted in Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy ... - DEA…
WEB4 days ago · SEATTLE – Law enforcement fanned out across the country and in western Washington yesterday arresting 17 people on indictments and criminal complaints for a multi- state drug trafficking conspiracy. The two-year investigation alleges that the trafficking ring has been linked to a fatal fentanyl overdose on the Lummi Nation reservation in Whatcom County.
Multiple Pharmaceutical Distributor Executives, Sales ... - DEA.gov
WEB4 days ago · The DEA, Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General (DHHS-OIG), FBI, U.S. Postal Service - OIG, Food and Drug Administration - Office of Criminal Investigations and Texas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit conducted the investigation with assistance from the Department of Homeland Security, General Services Administration ...
DEA cracks down on pill presses in latest front in the fight ... - CBS News
WEBFeb 27, 2024 · In one bust, DEA agents seized several presses, along with 200,000 suspected fentanyl pills, in a duplex-turned-drug lab in New York City.
DEA has seized over 55 million fentanyl pills in 2023 so far ... - CBS News
WEBOct 3, 2023 · Washington — Law enforcement agencies have so far seized over 55 million pills of fentanyl this year and more than 9,000 pounds of powder containing the deadly drug, Attorney General Merrick...
Largest International Operation Against Darknet Trafficking of Fentanyl …
WEBMay 2, 2023 · Agents later located a storage unit linked to the drug conspiracy and seized over 80 pounds of pressed fentanyl pills, eight guns, and precursor materials to press additional pills. The FBI JCODE and DEA HIDTA Tactical Diversion Squad investigated the case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California is prosecuting the case.
DEA Arrests for Fentanyl Surpass Arrests for Heroin for First Time ...
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · WASHINGTON ― Arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration for fentanyl offenses exceeded those for heroin offenses for the first time in fiscal year 2021, according to a new Bureau of Justice Statistics report, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Other Opioid Offenses in Federal Courts, 2021.
DEA warns of counterfeit pain pills with fentanyl at illegal online ...
WEB1 day ago · In 2022, the average fentanyl pill contained 2.4 milligrams of fentanyl, according to analysis by DEA forensic chemists who test random samples of the fentanyl seized in the U.S. Overall, the ...
Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America - Washington Post
WEBDec 12, 2022 · The DEA said it is now taking direct aim at the Mexican cartels and the fentanyl epidemic. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram acknowledged that the government remained too focused on heroin at...
A fentanyl courier moving enough to kill millions got busted, then ...
WEBOct 4, 2022 · The DEA lost track of the man who was transporting the massive amount of fentanyl. Prosecutors with the 18th Judicial District and DEA agents seized 114 pounds of pure fentanyl in Colorado ...