For Star subscribers: Drug smuggling in Arizona has almost completely shifted away from marijuana and to harder drugs including fentanyl.
Danyelle Khmara Drug smuggling in Arizona has almost completely shifted away from marijuana and to harder drugs including fentanyl.
Last fiscal year, they seized about 12,000 pounds. In the first nine months of the current fiscal year, they seized less than 900 pounds. Fentanyl-smuggling hotspotThe Sinaloa Cartel, which is in Sonora, is the primary pill maker for fentanyl, which can come in all shapes and colors, even made to look like prescription medication, says Cheri Oz, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Phoenix.
“They're going throughout the U.S., so what we do here matters for Ohio and West Virginia and Connecticut and Kentucky where we're seeing a high rate of overdose deaths from opioids,” he said. As well, the average weight of seizures in Arizona has dropped dramatically, to levels indicative of personal use rather than intent to distribute.
Cartels move away from marijuanaTwo likely reasons for the shift away from marijuana to harder drugs are that more states have legalized the once illicit plant and Americans’ addiction to fentanyl has increased. Tucson Sector agents have seized more than twice the amount of methamphetamine than marijuana this fiscal year.
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