(The Center Square) – Colorado law enforcement seized its largest stash of illegal fentanyl pills in state history.
It was also the sixth-largest one-time fentanyl pill seizure in U.S. history.
The announcement was made on Monday by Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly, who worked in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division.
“This played out like an episode of a TV show,” said DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge David Olesky in a press release. “There is no doubt many lives have been saved by keeping these poison pills off the streets of Colorado.”
According to authorities, in total, the seizure brought in:
• 198 kilograms of counterfeit fentanyl pills, approximately 1.7 million pills.
• 12 kilograms of fentanyl powder.
• 2.5 pounds
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