The border in your backyard: Mexican cartels fuel record fentanyl, meth busts in Rocky Mountain states

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made grounds seizures successful 4 upland states past year, astir of which were funneled done the confederate borderline by 2 cartels. 

In 225, the DEA seized 8,729,000 fentanyl pills and astir 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine crossed the four-state upland portion that includes Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming, the bureau said successful a quality release. 

"These numbers are perfectly staggering. Colorado saw a 76% summation successful pill seizures year-over-year. Utah pill seizures doubled. This should not lone beryllium a wake-up call, but a jolt to each national successful our four-state region," said DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent successful Charge David Olesky. 

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The Drug Enforcement Administration said, "This is the largest one-time seizure of counterfeit pills successful Colorado history, and the sixth-largest, azygous seizure of suspected fentanyl pills successful United States history." (DEA)

Nationwide, the DEA seized astir 47 cardinal pills. 

In Colorado, the authorities saw its largest methamphetamine bust successful April with 733 pounds of the drug, and the largest one-time fentanyl pill seizure successful November with 1.7 cardinal pills. 

Cesar Avila, DEA adjunct peculiar cause successful complaint who oversees Wyoming and Montana, told Cowboy State Daily that the bulk of the drugs were being distributed to cartel networks – the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) -- successful cities similar Denver and Salt Lake City, which past administer them successful Wyoming. 

"When you’re dealing with the idiosyncratic population, they are much successful it for effects and not for the nett margins," Avila told the newspaper. "They’re not needfully doing it for the concern broadside of things; they’re doing it much due to the fact that they request that peculiar addiction."

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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said overmuch of the fentanyl and meth seized from 4 Mountain states were funneled into the United States by cause cartels.  (Agnes Bun/AFP via Getty Images; Francisco Vega/Getty Images)

Avila speculated that some cartels person a beingness successful most, if not each Wyoming communities.  

South of the border, cartels chiefly usage tractor trailers to haul the drugs to the larger hubs, helium said. The drugs are either transported by idiosyncratic drivers oregon done the message into Wyoming, helium added. 

"DEA remains committed to targeting the cause cartels who run wrong our 4 states, and we volition proceed to dismantle the networks liable for poisoning and sidesplitting radical successful our communities," Olesky said.

So acold successful 2026, the DEA has seized much than 239,000 fentanyl pills and much than 10,000 methamphetamine pills, according to DEA figures. 

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