Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) said cartels “are controlling the border,” following a recent trip to El Paso, Texas, with fellow colleagues on the House Homeland Security Committee. The New York congressman shared a video he recorded from a helicopter with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operation, showing “what appeared to…

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is marking May 10 as “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” in order to make more citizens aware of the life-threatening dangers posed by the synthetic opioid. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at unprecedented rates,” DEA administrator Anne Milgram said in a May 9 press release. “On this first-ever National Fentanyl Awareness…

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) marked May 10 as “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” in order to make more citizens aware of the life-threatening dangers posed by the synthetic opioid. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at unprecedented rates,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a May 9 statement. “On this first-ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day, please…

An award of up to $5 million is being offered by the U.S. State Department for information on a Chinese fentanyl trafficker. Zhang Jian, 42, a key leader of a transnational criminal organization that manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogues from at least four known labs in China, advertised illicit drugs on the Internet to customers…