Tag: Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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‘Deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced’: DEA seized record amount of fentanyl in Colorado last year
A total of 522 people died from drug overdoses in Denver in 2023, the most since tracking began in 1923, according to Denver’s Office of the Medical Examiner. Around 40% of those deaths involved the use of fentanyl, according to the office. In an effort to battle the ongoing fentanyl war that has blazed since…