The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Oct. 13 announced that a seizure in the Bronx, New York state, involved fentanyl that could have killed 850,000 people.
The DEA and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York announced that some 300,000 rainbow fentanyl pills, as well as 20 pounds of fentanyl in white and blue powder form were seized on Oct. 7.
Some of the fentanyl pills looked like pharmaceutical drugs, including oxycodone and Xanax. Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in a statement (pdf) that the rainbow fentanyl pills were worth up to $6 million on the street, and the powdered fentanyl was worth an estimated $3 million….