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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show
The DEA allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to enter New Mexico streets between 2023 and 2025 despite monitoring shipments, according to agents and records. The strategy, criticized as a public safety risk, involved letting pills reach communities to build larger criminal cases, with a DEA agent alleging it contributed to deaths.
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