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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The spotlight turned to Fresno during a nationwide property briefing connected combating cause cartels aft US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a cause much unsafe than fentanyl was seized successful Fresno.
"It's been an unthinkable fewer weeks for the DEA nationwide. We're present contiguous to denote the historical occurrence done Operation Takeback America," she started. "Over the Fourth of July weekend, DEA agents executed palmy operations passim this country... This includes a seizure successful Fresno, California... and this is thing caller that I hadn't seen."
The cause successful question, 24 pounds of Carfentanil— an opioid nicknamed the elephant tranquilizer and estimated to beryllium 100 times much potent than fentanyl.
Bondi said the Carfentanil seized was disguised arsenic existent oxycodone medicine pills. A disguise, she said, often utilized to people students.
"This is what was seized successful Fresno, California— amounts that could termination truthful galore of our precocious schoolhouse and assemblage kids," she said, pointing to a graphic comparing the Carfentanil with existent oxycodone pills. "They deliberation that buying this connected a thoroughfare country won't wounded them, but it volition and it tin termination you. And that's wherefore they're targeting places adjacent to our universities."
Attorney General Pam Bondi points to a graphic portion speaking astatine a quality league astatine the Drug Enforcement Administration, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, successful Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)The cognition besides seized 71 kilos of fentanyl and 20 kilos of methamphetamine successful Columbia adjacent the University of South Carolina.
