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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Audrey Liza M. Nolasco

DOJ Watchdog Probes Federal Agents Caught Letting Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Flood Streets

A Justice Department watchdog is investigating allegations that federal agents allowed thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets while pursuing larger trafficking cases (Credit: ENDEVR/YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT)

A DEA fentanyl investigation is intensifying after federal agents were accused of allowing large shipments of the deadly opioid to go unseized in New Mexico while pursuing larger trafficking cases.

The Justice Department''s inspector general has launched a review of the controversial tactic sometimes described as letting drugs 'walk'. At the centre of the controversy is one staggering figure: 74,000 fentanyl pills.

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