The federal Drug Enforcement Administration is announcing the results of a year-long investigation into the way foreign drug cartels get illegal and deadly drugs into the U.S. Tom Ivarie is an assistant special agent in charge of Louisville’s D-E-A field office, which is responsible for Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. He said they seized a lot in those three states:
“There was over 69 pounds of fentanyl powder seized in this initiative, over 15,000 fake pills received. And that really equates to 1.7 million deadly doses of fentanyl.”
