The agency deliberately allowed some shipments of illegal deadly drugs to go through to build bigger cases, the outlet’s sources say The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) let hundreds of thousands of illegal fentanyl pills reach the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025 – potentially leading to deadly outcomes – to focus on building bigger drug cases, The Associated Press reported on Monday, citing law enforcement sources and records. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid roughly 50 times