In a record-breaking drug bust, the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Thursday it seized approximately 1 million fake pills containing fentanyl in Inglewood, California, earlier this month.
The counterfeit pills were seized on July 5 during a raid of a home tied to a Los Angeles-area drug trafficking organization believed to be linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, the DEA said. The seizure is the largest ever made by the DEA in California, according to the agency. The fake pills have an estimated street value of $15 million to $20 million.
“This massive seizure disrupted the flow of dangerous amounts of fentanyl into our streets and probably saved many lives,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner said in a statement.
Los Angeles DEA agents, along with the DEA New York Division Tactical Diversion Squad and the Hawthorne Police Department, began investigating the drug ring in May, identifying Southern California narcotic couriers and stash house managers responsible for distributing the narcotics before conducting the raid on the Inglewood residence.
Keep going after the tail of the snake and all there will ever be are more glorious headlines of drug seizures, arrests of low end cartel employees, and further cluttering of our prisons with gang members who will be back at doing the same death dealing business the second they’re out on parole. It’s an endless, money sucking cycle, with taxpayers footing the infinite bill.
Yup agree. Good to get it off the streets. But will never win the war.