CENTENNIAL, CO – The Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) has seized nearly 3.2 million fentanyl pills and more than 92 kilograms of fentanyl powder since January 1, 2026. "We recently crossed the half-way point in 2026, and it's the perfect time to assess where we stand across...

CENTENNIAL, CO – The Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) is issuing a warning after DEA's Southwest Laboratory identified illicit pills containing mixtures of both deadly fentanyl/carfentanil and fentanyl/heroin. The drugs were found in tablets after lab analyses of recent seizures in both Colorado and Utah. "With these...

DENVER – The DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) shattered records for fentanyl pill and methamphetamine seizures in 2025. Last year, approximately 8,729,000 fentanyl pills were seized in the RMFD – comprised of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana – along with approximately 1,400 kilograms (nearly 3,100 lbs.) of methamphetamine. “These...

SAN DIEGO – Nameer Mohammad Atta was sentenced in federal court today to 20 years in prison for distributing the fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of a 26-year-old active-duty lance corporal in the United States Marine Corps on May 21, 2020. When handing down the sentence, U.S. District...

DENVER – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) has announced the seizure of approximately 1.7 million counterfeit fentanyl pills from a storage facility in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch. This is the largest one-time seizure of counterfeit pills in Colorado history, and the sixth-largest, single seizure...

SAN DIEGO – Prolific drug dealer Bryan Kim Bullard, who supplied fentanyl to 25-year-old Danielle Good of Carlsbad and failed to seek help for over an hour while she lay dying of an overdose in a bathtub, was sentenced today in federal court to 20 years in prison. “The trafficking...

SAN DIEGO – Jonathan Tyler Gauthier, a prolific fentanyl dealer who kept selling the deadly drug despite the fatal overdoses of two customers within a four-month span, was sentenced in federal court today to 30 years in prison. According to the government’s sentencing memorandum, Gauthier sold the fentanyl that killed...

SAN DIEGO – Four indictments were unsealed in federal court charging 16 individuals throughout San Diego County with distributing large quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin and laundering drug-trafficking proceeds. In a coordinated takedown yesterday, more than 115 federal, state and local law enforcement officials arrested 10 defendants and executed...