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“One pill away from death”: inside Colorado Springs’ undercover fentanyl crackdown

Local, Fox21 / March 27, 2025 / COLORADO SPRINGS, DEA, Drug overdose, Fentanyl, Law Enforcement

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A record number of fentanyl pills are being seized across Colorado, with local law enforcement agencies like the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) crediting the success partly to their department’s ability to deploy officers undercover.

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Rocky Mountain Field Division announced it seized nearly 2.7 million fentanyl pills – or “fake” pills – in Colorado in 2024. This breaks the previous record set in 2023 with 2.61 million pills seized in the state.

“It is an unfortunate record to set,” said DEA RMFD Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen. “We continue to work day in, day out fighting the cartels putting this poison on Colorado streets. While we have seen seizure numbers trending lower in other parts of the country, Colorado seems to be consistently at or near record highs for the number of fake pills seized.”

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Colorado legislature to discuss bill that could remove social media users acting illegally

Approved, DENVER7, State / March 24, 2025 / 75th Colorado Legislature, Fentanyl, Social Media

DENVER — A mother who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose wants stronger protections for people acting illegally on social media, and a bill scheduled for discussion on Monday could do just that.

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Colorado drug bust includes elephant sedative

State, Approved, CBS Colorado / March 19, 2025 / Drugs, Fentanyl, Western Slope

Three people recently arrested for carrying drugs in western Colorado had among their stash an opioid said to be 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.

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Border patrol has seized more eggs than Fentanyl so far this year

Newsweek, Approved, National / March 19, 2025 / Border Patrol, Eggs, Fentanyl

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seized more egg products from United States borders this year than it has seized pounds of fentanyl.

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Fentanyl’s role in Trump’s trade war with Canada explained

National, Approved, Washington Examiner / March 13, 2025 / Canada, Fentanyl, Trade war

President Donald Trump‘s executive crusade to punish three countries he deems responsible for the deadly fentanyl epidemic has raised questions on whether tariffs, especially on Canada, will solve the U.S. drug problem.

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The fight over fentanyl is back on tap in Colorado’s General Assembly

Approved, coloradopolitics.com, State / February 24, 2025 / 75th Colorado Legislature, Fentanyl

The fentanyl epidemic, which produced intense fights two years ago over how to confront the soaring deaths from the synthetic opioid, has returned to the Colorado state Capitol this year.

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Senate committee halts SB 44, the bill to increase fentanyl criminal penalties

Approved, DENVER7, State / February 11, 2025 / 75th Colorado Legislature, Fentanyl, Senate Bill 44

With a 4-3 vote, a bill that proposed harsher criminal penalties related to fentanyl was postponed indefinitely Monday night inside the Colorado Capitol after a lengthy hearing inside the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Man convicted in Aurora operation that produced ‘millions’ of fentanyl pills

Approved, kdvr.com, Local / February 6, 2025 / Courts, Fentanyl

A Denver jury has convicted a man responsible for producing “millions of individual fentanyl pills” during 2024 in a drug manufacturing operation based in Aurora, the Denver District Attorney announced Wednesday morning.

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Five sentenced for delivering fentanyl that killed Colorado inmate

Approved, CBS Colorado, Local / December 16, 2024 / Courts, Fentanyl

Prison sentences were handed out Wednesday to the last of five people involved in the fatal fentanyl overdose of a Colorado inmate. The pills that killed her were smuggled into the jail inside another woman’s body.

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Police backtrack on claim that University of Colorado students overdosed on drugs laced with fentanyl

Approved, CBS Colorado, Local / December 11, 2024 / Fentanyl, University of Colorado

Police in Boulder are now backtracking on their claim that over the weekend a group of University of Colorado students overdosed on cocaine that was possibly tainted with fentanyl. Instead, police now say the five men had consumed an extreme amount of alcohol and then some had taken drugs which led them to become violently sick.

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