Seizure of Over a Half Million Fentanyl Pills Headed to Denver

A tip to the Drug Enforcement Administration resulted in the seizure of approximately 670,000 fake pills that were being transported to Denver, Colorado, from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

According to KDVR, the seizures occurred in two locations. Albuquerque and Colorado Springs. Two men who were reported as suspicious traveling to Denver by bus. Both men became nervous, one fled the scene, leaving two large suitcases behind. This prompted the Albuquerque Police Department to respond to the scene, seizing the two suitcases.

After obtaining a search warrant, police searched the bags and found 330k fake pils and two ounces of heroin inside the suitcases. The second man was able to board the bus to Denver with two suitcases. The Drug Enforcement Administration office in Colorado Springs was contacted at this time and detained the man and was able to seize the two suitcases and a backpack on the bus.

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The Colorado Springs Police Department used a K-9 that alerted officers to the possible presence of narcotics in all three bags. The warrant to search the bags revealed more fake pills, approximately 340k, and several thousand dollars in cash. The suspect was arrested and identified as a Denver resident wanted on drug trafficking warrants.

Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge, Jonathan Pullen, of the Drug Enforcement Administration said that the number of fentanyl pills seized in the case is almost enough to give every single resident of the city of Denver one of these fake pills.