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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Chimere Conner said her son thought he took a Xanax. She found him dead next to his bed with a pill still between his lips. It was a fake pill - laced with fentanyl. MARIETTA, Ga. — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said in 2023, the agency seized a record 79.5 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder across the country."Unfortunately, metro Atlanta is a very key part in this because we are the hub for most of the drugs coming in and out and money going back to the Mexican cartels," Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy said. Murphy said two of the biggest cartels, the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, smuggle the drugs across the border, including fentanyl, which ends up in schools and on the streets across Georgia.On May 3, Murphy said the Atlanta Field Division seized a large amount of fentanyl from an undisclosed location in Marietta. "In Marietta, we seized 11 Kilos of powered fentanyl from the CJNG organization operation," he said. Murphy said the dyed powder was smuggled across the border inside car batteries. "I can't tell you how many thousands of lives we saved but we did," he said. The DEA said the 11 Kilos could've made around 11 million pills. "I don't think any kids seek it out, but this is what the reality of taking a pill on the street nowadays is, you're more than likely getting fentanyl," Murphy explained. New statistics released by the DEA show that 22 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 are dying each week from drug overdoses/poisonings. Murphy said a majority of those teen's deaths are tied to fentanyl. "Out of the pills we seize and send to our laboratory for testing, seven out of ten of them have a fatal dose of fentanyl in them," he said. Many of the pills are dyed bright colors, referred to as 'rainbow fentanyl,' which is done purposely to target young people. The fake pills are disguised as Adderall, Oxycodone and Xanax. "It's in every school," Murphy said, adding later, "they (kids) don't fear this because it's a pill." An epidemic leaving thousands of families heartbroken. Many families across metro Atlanta are seeing the impact of this deadly drug firsthand. "I lost my 21-year-old son last year in June to Fentanyl poisoning," Chimere Conner said. Crispus LaShon Conner was a 2020
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