Posted on 01/16/2026 12:37:31 PM PST by DFG
The Rocky Mountain West remains in the grip of fentanyl and methamphetamine addiction, with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reporting record drug seizures throughout the region in 2025, Wyoming included.
Last year, the DEA seized 8,729,000 fentanyl pills and nearly 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine across the four-state mountain region that includes Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming, with fentanyl seizures in Wyoming up by 264% in 2025, according to DEA figures.
Statewide law enforcement continues to grapple with drugs infiltrating Wyoming communities as traces of carfentanil, an extremely potent synthetic opioid used to tranquilize large animals, was discovered in small doses last year.
Though numbers between state and federal law enforcement fluctuate slightly, drug arrests in general continue to be on the rise, though overdoses fell slightly over the past calendar year.
With record fentanyl seizures in Colorado in particular, the DEA shattered its own records in 2025 as the drug epidemic shows no signs of slowing.
Distribution Channels
Cesar Avila, DEA assistant special agent in charge who oversees Wyoming and Montana, said the bulk of the drugs are coming across the southern border and being distributed to cartel networks in larger hub cities like Denver and Salt Lake City who then funnel it north into Wyoming’s small communities.
He started his roughly 24-year career with the agency in Phoenix and Houston with stints in Washington, D.C. and Dallas and currently lives in Billings, Montana.
Though his early years in the southern states involved much higher quantities of drugs and much more sophisticated criminal networks, Wyoming and Montana do see their share of drugs though the schemes aren’t as sophisticated because the states are “at the end of the rope.”
Here, it’s more about meeting demands of the end users and less about profit.
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The Wyoming meth trade has always come from Denver through Laramie. One of the traffickers once was a guy named Matt Shepard, who lost his life when a deal went bad and his collaborator, burning out on speed at the time, took him out.
Time for the assets that were taking out the drug boats off venezuela to redeploy to mexico
If we would kindly remove the non-citizens from the Front Range maybe it would help. I’m tired of going anywhere in my town and thinking I’m in Mexico City.
Can we ever get back to real JUSTICE???? ..... HANG THEM!!
“One of the traffickers once was a guy named Matt Shepard,”
BUT BUT BUT. That’s not what the media said... He was just some poor innocent guy sitting in a bar and a bunch of hayseeds lynched him because he was gay. They even made daytime movies about it. Oprah even cried about it.
The media would never lie to us would they???
(/s)
P
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