Authorities found more than $680,000 the house, vehicle, and safe deposit box of a Border Patrol agent who has been charged with drug trafficking, federal court documents show.
Border Patrol agents have seized a record amount of fentanyl in the Tucson Sector.
Fentanyl is so toxic and lethal that the Department of Homeland Security is considering classifying it as a weapon of mass destruction.
Two DEA agents and eight sheriff’s deputies were taken to a hospital in Ohio early Wednesday after they were exposed to the powerful opioid, fentanyl.
The DEA is warning about a highly potent and dangerous drug that has already claimed a life in Arizona.
A joint investigation involving the DEA netted 16 arrests in New York City and the discovery of cocaine, heroin and enough fentanyl to kill 6 million people, NBC New York reports.
The ever-growing opioid crisis that claims thousands of lives a year also is becoming increasingly dangerous for law enforcement agencies, including the DEA.
The DEA and Tempe Police Department seized about 30,000 counterfeit pills containing the powerful and deadly opioid fentanyl.
