dailycaller
Steve Birr
Vice Reporter
1:55 PM 02/11/2018
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/11/police-seize-fentanyl-massachusetts/Authorities in Boston recently scored one of the largest drug busts in Massachusetts’ history, seizing enough fentanyl to cause seven million fatal overdoses.
The massive grab was the result of a six month wiretap investigation dubbed “Operation High Hopes,†that monitored a gang in the Boston area with links to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Boston police and agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested 38 suspected narcotics traffickers in the bust that yielded more than 33 pounds of fentanyl, as well as cocaine, heroin, $300,000 in cash and two firearms, reported Fox News.
Officials said the find was “truly staggering,†noting the fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, was enough to wipe out the entire population of Massachusetts.
