A troubling new investigation is raising serious questions about the tactics used by federal drug enforcement agents in their fight against fentanyl.
An Associated Press reporter uncovered evidence that agents with the federal drug enforcement agency allowed large amounts of fentanyl to be distributed onto the streets of New Mexico, all in an effort to build more significant criminal cases against drug networks.
The findings were discussed in an interview between the AP reporter and a national news outlet, shining a light on a controversial strategy that put potentially dangerous quantities of a deadly drug into communities in order to pursue bigger arrests and prosecutions.
Fentanyl remains one of the most deadly substances driving the ongoing drug crisis across the United States, and the revelation that law enforcement may have knowingly allowed it to circulate has drawn significant attention.
