A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent takes part in a search warrant at a Healthplus Pharmacy for evidence related to an opioid pill mill, in Miramar, Florida, in August 2022. Recent DEA operations in Miami resulted in the seizure of $10 million in cryptocurrency linked to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. (Reuters/Marco Bello)
"DEA is hitting the cartels where it hurts — with arrests, with seizures, and with relentless pressure," added DEA Acting Administrator Robert Murphy in a statement. "From meth labs in California to fentanyl pills disguised as pharmaceuticals seized at our border, these operations are saving American lives every single day."
"We are not slowing down. We are dismantling these networks piece by piece — and we won't stop until the last brick of their empire falls," he also said.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of "El Chapo", right, and a head of the Sinaloa Cartel, recently pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in Chicago. (Getty Images)
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The operations unfolded from coast to coast, including in the states of California, Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
