Posted on 05/06/2025 9:45:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Tuesday, Attorney General Pamela Bondi held a press conference announcing a week-long, multi-agency and multi-law enforcement and tribal operation headed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the New Mexico District Attorney’s Office. The operation resulted in huge drug busts and multiple arrests of high-level members of the Sinaloa cartel.
According to Bondi, the agents garnered 11.5 kilos of fentanyl, including three million fentanyl pills — the largest seizure in the nation's history.
The main head of the Sinaloa cartel, Alberto Salazar Amaya, was arrested along with five others, all in the country illegally. Amaya was arrested in Salem, Oregon, along with five million dollars in cash, luxury automobiles, and other contraband. The illicit drugs, which included methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin, were seized in four states: New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
"These pills were stamped as oxycodone. Let that sink in. Three million pills going on our streets. Three million pills, the streets of our country, laced with fentanyl, labeled as oxycodone. And, they were in all different strengths of fentanyl within them."
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Bondi was joined on the dais by the agents instrumental to the success of the operation, as well as the New Mexico District Attorney, the DEA Deputy Administrator, and the head of the El Paso, Texas, DEA office.
"This is a really dangerous job that these DEA agents face every day, but they are getting very dangerous drugs off of our streets each day. They are flooding our cities with a weapon of mass destruction: fentanyl. And when we catch you, like all of these individuals, if convicted, we will put you behind bars, there will be no negotiating, and we will lock you up for as long as humanly possible. We will not negotiate with those who are killing our family members, including brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, parents, friends. Everyone in this room, I guarantee you, knows someone who has been afflicted with drug addiction, and many who have known someone who has lost a loved one because of this trash on our streets."
Bondi praised the over 55,000 hours of law enforcement investigation required to make this type of takedown and seizure possible, praised the bravery of the DEA agents, and thanked the "extraordinary leadership" of the DEA principal deputy administrator Robert Murphy, the DEA El Paso division chief and agent in charge Omar Arellano, and the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico Ryan Ellison.
Bondi discussed a tour she made with law enforcement of a DEA laboratory. She noted that the precursor for fentanyl is made in China and shipped to Mexico, where the cartels produce the powder. Bondi warned how quickly the cartels can manufacture and make fentanyl powder and lace it into pills and other forms of drugs: Xanax, Adderall, Molly (the party drug), cocaine, and marijuana. Bondi assessed that 75,000 Americans die each year from fentanyl poisoning. It is the number one cause of death for adults aged 18-34.
Bondi concluded and warned:
"More seizures are coming, more arrests are coming, I guarantee you that. And these dealers, these sellers, these street-level sellers better look out because we will not be negotiating with you. We will bring you to justice, and we will not stop until this poison is off of our streets and our country."
IBPBDS posters.
For those who may not know PBDS stands for Pam Bondi Derangement Syndrome.
what does IB stand for?
In Before...
Surely this will placate the Bondi haters.
Don’t understand why people are deranged about Bondi. She’s solid.
It’s Mike Waltz that’s the issue.
Fox news tour to follow.
The Flama Teslas are judge shopping to secure the cartels rapid release.
Has Atty Gen Bondi’s “Redemption Tour” officially begun?
Check back in two weeks.
If nothing of significance has been walked back , clarified or put into a specific context, then maybe yes
At first listen , this sounds absolutely terrific.
Her staff probably deserves a raise and the weekend off.
You gotta be fast! Which is kind of ironic.
Whoever thought of an Eeyore being fast?
Man, if this is even half true this is a MAJOR bust. Seems like these cartels have about a 20 year lifespan before our people get their hooks into them. Escobar, dead -his org, dead. Felix brothers, dead - their org, dead. Sinaloa next up to the plate. Their arrogance ALWAYS does them in, just ask Carmine Galante.
Tomorrow morning an Obama judge will declare these arrests illegal and order Trump to release the narco terrorists with their drugs.
I believe she is getting the job done that President Trump wants her to do and it is worthwhile.
I still want to see perp walks of high-ranking Democrats. But I am happy with busting the Cartels too. It has to be done.
I’m one of those. I have that syndrome. Nothing on the bombs on January 6th. Nothing on the undercover FBI on January 6th. No Epstein list. No one being prosecuted for the Epstein list. Nothing about 2020 election fraud. Everyone involved in spying on Trump and trying to take him down is still out there. The Mar-a-Lago raid. The corrupt judge in New York and his daughter. Nothing about the attempted assassinations of Trump. She’s doing everything, but what we wanted her to do.
Nope. Trump made a huge mistake.
YAY Pambie !
you go gurl, keep kikn ass !
KPTV - Salem, Oregon
“A New affordable housing complex is opening in Salem. It’s designed to help refugees who are re-settling in the U.S.”
A new designator for Oregon: Illegal immigrants = resettled refugees.
She has been on the job less than six months. With Biden hold overs trying to slow her down.
Irritable bowel.
You’re dreaming if you think there are cases to be prosecuted. Waaaay past the statute of limitations.
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