The DEA, following a long-term investigation, seized a record-breaking amount of fentanyl and secured enough evidence for a federal indictment against three alleged traffickers in San Diego.
The DEA said more than 30 people died in Maricopa County in Arizona from counterfeit oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl.
The DEA is waging a war against a deadly cousin of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to curb abuse and overdoses.
It was one of the largest drug busts in Utah history.
Fentanyl has been used as a powerful additive to heroin, and its use has been killing Americans.
The DEA is bracing for overdoses after warning that hundreds of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills are laced with a potentially deadly synthetic opioid.
Fentanyl, the painkiller that killed Prince and is responsible for hundreds of over deaths in recent years, also poses a significant danger to law enforcement, the DEA warned.
The DEA is investigating eight fatal overdoses related to the painkiller fentanyl in Sacramento County over the past month.
