Tempe Police Interim Chief Josie Montenegro, Phoenix DEA Particular Agent in Cost Cheri Oz, and questionably elected Arizona Lawyer Basic Kris Mayes held a joint press convention Thursday to debate the large narcotic seizures within the Phoenix space, together with over 4 and a half million fentanyl capsules and over 140 kilos of fentanyl powder.
These harmful medicine primarily come from felony unlawful drug traffickers with the Sinaloa Cartel, says Cheri Oz.
It’s unclear what number of narcotics had been seized in 2023 to this point. “These seizures have occurred over a time frame of simply over three years, and the investigations stem from town of Tempe. Nearly all of our seizures have occurred domestically. However, all of the seizures that you simply do see have occurred inside the state of Arizona,” stated Interim Chief Josie Montenegro.
Montenegro continued, “the pattern you see right here immediately is staggering. There are over 4 and a half million fentanyl capsules, over 140 kilos of fentanyl powder, over 135 kilos of cocaine, over 3000 kilos of methamphetamines, 35 kilos of heroin, 49 firearms, and over 2 million in money.”
“To this point, the financial worth of all of the medicine seized is over $13 million.”
Tempe isn’t the one group seeing the damning results of this disaster. In 2022 alone, the DEA seized over 50.6 million lethal fentanyl-laced, faux prescription capsules and over 10,000 kilos of fentanyl powder, half of which got here from Arizona. In line with the DEA, this is sufficient to kill over 379 million folks.
The Gateway Pundit reported final September that multiple million fentanyl capsules had been seized from a house in Avondale, Arizona, in what police referred to as the “single largest fentanyl seizure in Phoenix police historical past.”
“Final yr nationwide, we misplaced 107,622 lives to drug poisonings with fentanyl being the first drug,” stated Phoenix DEA Particular Agent in Cost Cheri Oz. “The drug cartels are placing fentanyl in all of their illicit medicine akin to cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and faux capsules, which they disguise to look reputable, like pharmaceutical capsules. It’s trickery. It’s deception. It’s demise.”
She added, “Fentanyl on this room alone accommodates over 30 million deadly doses, doubtlessly.”
Fentanyl is extremely harmful and is at the moment the main explanation for demise for People 18-45 years previous.
“in 27 years in legislation enforcement, I’ve by no means seen a drug as harmful and lethal as fentanyl,” Ozstated.
“I need to be crystal clear,” stated Oz, “the medicine which might be flooding Arizona each single day are sourced primarily by one evil entity, the Sinaloa Drug Cartel.”
“The Sinaloa Drug Cartel is evil, and so they’re motivated by greed. They’re recklessly endangering our communities, taking lives each single day,” she added.
Ozconcluded her presentation by saying, “that is actually a matter of life and demise.”
Kris Mayes billed this seizure as a “latest large-scale interagency narcotics investigation within the Valley.”
Nonetheless, throughout her speech, Mayes failed to say that this investigation has been ongoing for over three years. This was seemingly simply political theater meant to attraction to Arizonans earlier than the fraudulent Katie Hobbs and Kris Mayes administrations additional open the southern border and provides free rein to the cartels.
Pretend Information Arizona Central reported, “As well as, Mayes referred to as the Sinaloa Drug Cartel out by identify, saying partly that they’re ‘evil.’” However, Mayes didn’t name out the cartels or name them “evil.” Actually, she didn’t even point out the cartels till she was requested about them in a subsequent press gaggle.
When requested if she was open to utilizing Arizona’s sovereign authority to safe the border, Mayes informed The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson, “that’s a federal difficulty, and I’m not going to deal with that proper now.”
Watch yesterday’s press convention beneath.
