The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Monday announced one of the largest single seizures of suspected fentanyl pills in United States history.
The DEA’s Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) said it seized “approximately 1.7 million counterfeit fentanyl pills from a storage facility in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch.”
“This played out like an episode of a TV show, where a winning bidder legally bought a storage unit and unbeknownst to them, the unit contained 1.7 million counterfeit fentanyl pills and another 12 kilograms of fentanyl powder,” said DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge David Olesky.
“There is no doubt many lives have been saved by keeping these poison pills of the streets of Colorado,” he added.
Footage from a press conference
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