Tag: David Olesky
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EDITORIAL: Say it, Governor: Colorado is a sanctuary state
Gov. Jared Polis is at it again, claiming just last week that Colorado isn’t a sanctuary for illegal immigration. Most notably, he contends Colorado law enforcement agencies freely work with federal authorities, including on cases involving illegal immigrants — despite recently enacted state laws to the contrary. It was by his own pen that those…
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DEA says Mexican cartels behind Colorado fentanyl trade | 2024: A LOOK BACK
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Every fentanyl distribution case throughout Colorado in 2024 could be tracked back to two major Mexican cartels — Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) told The Denver Gazette. “You might be focusing on a single distributor here. But if it’s elicit fentanyl, it will trace back to…
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I-25, I-70 corridors made Denver target for car theft ring
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The intersection of Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 put Denver in the cross hairs of a car theft ring linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. Denver’s highly populated metro area is a natural target for cartels but it’s the freeway corridors that draw criminal activity, according to David Olesky, assistant special agent in charge at the…
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Colorado DEA seizes more than 570,000 fentanyl pills in one week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division seized around 570,000 fentanyl masked to look like legal prescription pills during a collection of operations in June. During separate operations across a seven-day period, DEA Special Agents and members of multiple state and local law enforcement…
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Rocky Mountain DEA on pace to break fentanyl seizure records
Nearly 1.8 million fentanyl pills have been seized by the DEA so far this fiscal year
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
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Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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‘Deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced’: DEA seized record amount of fentanyl in Colorado last year
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A total of 522 people died from drug overdoses in Denver in 2023, the most since tracking began in 1923, according to Denver’s Office of the Medical Examiner. Around 40% of those deaths involved the use of fentanyl, according to the office. In an effort to battle the ongoing fentanyl war that has blazed since…
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Colorful pills and animal tranquilizer: Twin concerns putting new twist on fentanyl crisis
Although Colorado’s recorded fentanyl overdose deaths appear to have leveled off slightly between 2021 and 2022, federal and state law enforcement officials warn people shouldn’t get complacent about the state’s fentanyl crisis. Numbers are still staggeringly high, the nature of the supply evolves rapidly and cartels that traffic the drug adapt to attract a diverse…
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Fentanyl and its dangerous mix: Cheap, easy to produce and deadly
Fentanyl has fueled a spiraling overdose crisis in Colorado and across the United States. The drug’s increasingly ubiquitous presence, both in the illicit market overall and in other substances, has permanently changed the drug supply, officials say. Between March 2020 and March 2021, more than 100,000 Americans fatally overdosed, the first time the country had…