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Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP):
Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press.
DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills â but did not seize them â as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a âweapon of mass destruction.â
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