Shades of Fast and Furious? DEA Allegedly Let Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Hit the Streets
By Bob Hoge | 2:13 PM on June 22, 2026
Remember Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious scandal? The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco (ATF) allowed over 2,000 firearms to be purchased illegally in 2009 so they could track them and tie them to Mexican drug cartels. What could go wrong?
Turns out, a lot.
They promptly lost track of the guns, and then one of them was used in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Holder was eventually held in contempt of Congress for refusing to come clean on the matter, but even he admitted that the tactics were “wholly unacceptable.”
Some Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents didn’t get the memo, however, according to a new Associated Press report that alleges the agency allowed hundreds of thousands of deadly fentanyl pills to flood New Mexico between 2023 and 2025. Instead of stopping the flow, they stood by and waited for bigger fish to fry (emphasis theirs):
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/22/shades-of-fast-and-furious-dea-allegedly-let-hundreds-of-thousands-of-fentanyl-pills-hit-the-streets-n2203596#google_vignette
