Officials are raising the alarm that children are being targeted by drug cartels ahead of the Halloween season after authorities discovered 15,000 fentanyl pills hidden in candy packaging in Connecticut.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that two Maryland men, Oscar Flores, 34, and Severe Alelar, 25, had been indicted on multiple charges for trafficking fentanyl.
The two men were arrested in Rock Hill on September 8 after they showed an undercover DEA agent a sample of their supply. The agent told the suspected drug traffickers that he needed to go to another location to pick up the money.
As Flores and Alelar followed the agent behind from another vehicle, a local police officer flashed his lights to pull over the suspects’ SUV. The two attempted to escape by driving over a roadside curb into a grassy area but were boxed in by other law enforcement vehicles.
When investigators searched the SUV, they discovered “numerous Nerds candy boxes and Skittles candy bags,” which ultimately contained 15,000 fentanyl pills.
Two Maryland Men Charged with Trafficking Thousands of Fentanyl Pills into Connecticut @DEANewEngland https://t.co/XtkxHsPf5i pic.twitter.com/AJDQRh49sc
— U.S. Attorney CT (@USAO_CT) September 23, 2022
Both Flores and Alelar face up to 80 years in prison if they are convicted on all charges brought against them.
“Trafficking fentanyl is already and undoubtedly a serious offense, but one doesn’t have to stretch their imagination too far to consider how disguising fentanyl pills in children’s candy packaging, as we allege, can result in even more tragic consequences in the community,” said U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery.
Last month, DEA officials raised the alarm that Mexican drug cartels are disguising “rainbow fentanyl” pills as candy to get young individuals hooked as early as possible to drive their profits.
“Rainbow fentanyl—fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes—is a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction amongst kids and young adults,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.
Milligram also noted the number of colored fentanyl pills being seized is increasing, as the DEA and law enforcement officials have confiscated pills in colorful presentations in 21 states, NBC News reported.
Former DEA special operations director Derek Maltz appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday to warn parents the consequences of children becoming addicted to fentanyl are deadly.
“We’re seeing an unprecedented amount of kids dying as young as 13 years old,” Maltz said. “And we know now, the DEA says, that 40% of the pills contain a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl.”
“We’re losing a future generation — 300 a day,” he added.
Drug overdoses took the lives of over 108,000 Americans in 2021, with 66 percent of those deaths being attributed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to the CDC.
Breitbart News recently reported that police in Phoenix, Arizona, announced on Friday they seized nearly one million fentanyl pills that were allegedly trafficked by two Hispanic men, who were arrested during the bust. It was one of the largest busts in the department’s history.
Phoenix police detectives seized approximately one million fentanyl pills in a home. Detectives arrested two suspected drug traffickers and seized a handgun in what they call the largest one-time seizure of fentanyl pills in the department’s history. https://t.co/5Iy0AJwonX
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 24, 2022
Much of the fentanyl supply in the U.S. are trafficked across the southern border, which has been largely unenforced by Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration.
From June to July, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border increased by 203 percent, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials. “More tangibly, law enforcement seized 2,071 pounds of fentanyl last month compared to 680 pounds in June,” Breitbart News noted.
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Exactly.
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Where are sanctuary cities for non-vibrant Americans?
They also oughta worry about all those trans-pushers disguised as elementary school teachers who are targeting kids, too.
They’re good boys, very good boys.
The fentanyl is made in China. Not to worry, though. They’re “not bad folks”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnxjFgJi99g
Happy Halloween.
Why did Bill Cosby start doing Jello commercials? You can get two kids for the price of one Quaalude.
I actually believe was just a decent way to hide the drugs being close to Halloween and all,really doubt trying to get trick o treaters hooked(no monie ) but could see it easily getting mixed up and killing kids.
I when a kid remembered that folks were putting razors in candy apples ect. though believe a one in a million event at most,still…….,fucked up shit.
As we only get a few kids get the one pound bars(or whatever shrinkflation weighs em in this year),wrapped and a hell of a treat!
Last years pumpkin:
I think its a disguise methods as well. The story of targeted children is bogus designed to get an emotional response as usual.
The amount put into a ‘candy’ would have to be very small because if the intension is to create business, addiction, then killing your intended customer isn’t going to work very well for future business. Nobody is going to risk going to jail for life by smuggling and selling candy to kids with very little drugs in them.
Plus when the kid eats the candy and either the parent sees something wrong or the kid says they don’t feel good… all that candy is going into the trashcan… ends the addiction threat right there… bad plan all round…
”I long for the good old days where one only had to worry about how many skittles you needed to mix with the codeine to make a pleasant Purple Drank.”
Trayvon Martin
No self-respecting hood rat puts Skittles in his Purple Drank.
Only use Jolly Ranchers!!!
Back in rural 1960s New Hampshire our favorite house for trick or treat was the neighbor lady who gave us home baked cookies.
I’m sorry but the world that we now live in sucks, and if I could get Trump to lend me Tesla’s time machine, I would take a one way trip to about 1919.
Short the stock market and make out like a bandit for the Depression.
So the cartels are now trying to make money selling drugs to children? Cause that’s where the money is? Glad the DOJ is protecting us from these ruthless cartels! I mean what would we do without them?
Like Joe Camel before them . . .
Not just ‘children’ … but young criminals who — like their adult counterparts — will do anything for their drugs …
The drugs drive the crime … and vice versa …
If I were the maker of Skittles or Nerds I’d demand to see the packages in person. This will undermine sales. Are these republican owned companies? Yet another push against Halloween?
Bottom line, a fully legal market in all drugs would enable users to purchase what they want from reputable manufacturers at reputable businesses, labeled with purity and potency, etc. Not nirvana, but a sane approach to realizing that nearly everyone consumes some intoxicant, but the government only allows certain degrees of freedom on some intoxicants where they get a cut of the sale revenue.
The presence of this amount of fentayl in our country is about murder, and an administration that is promoting these murders. Between the jab and the promotion of chemical castration, there’s clearly an agenda against children…but only some seem to care….and they are called fascists for caring.
So … we’ve already got legal pot in many States — and look how great that’s working out …
You’re right, though, that there is an agenda to destroy US — and children are high on that list whether through abortion or the jab or the agendas pushed by cultural marxists via sick people in the roles of ‘teachers’ in our schools or at the library with DQSH …
We’re going to need a whole lot more rope and lamp posts …
We have state cartels controlling the market in many states, but what we do not have is freedom. Please don’t confuse the two nor attribute problems of the new cartel with freedom.
You can bet your ass those pills swam across the Rio Grande to get here.
What, you think there’s legit security at the Port of Los Angeles?
PTHHHHHHHT.
When’s the last time you heard of a container ship bust with tons of synthetic opioids?
And the open border idiots succeed in destroying yet another cherished holiday.
Oh the DEA is saving children! One wonders how many Cee Eye Agents are involved in fentanyl trafficking?
Also, children, get your clot shot. Too many kids are running around unvaccinated.
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“Both Flores and Alelar face up to 80 years in prison IFIF they are convicted on all charges brought against them.”
Hell … with the wrong judge — they’ll be shown the back door of the court house and a waiting getaway car to take them to the next town that will benefit from their ‘diversity’.
Absurdly understated. 1 of those pills will kill a small child. 2 of those pills will kill most adults. They were disguising the pills to look like 30mg oxycodone. Now making them look like candy? This is an attack meant to kill not increase profits. Its not good business model when you kill off your customers. A level of evil I never imagined could exist in America.
All roads lead to depop.
yep… got it right
Who was behind the whole opium wars incidents in china — the ‘chosen’ folks … what a surprise.
Whenever there is money being made from human degradation and/or human suffering, (((they)))’re the ones making that money …
Not mentioned on our local Connecticut news websites, which is very weird because they love fear stories like this.
don’t ask how I know but back in the day Ecstasy pills were candy colored like this. My guess is they’re trying to exploit the memory/ appeal of those days – not to try to market to children. And never ever underestimate the drug police’ ability to not read the room about what’s really happening, or to find ways to justify their budgets.
I could easily paint a scenario where those heroic agencies would find a way to poison some kids with the stuff to continue/guarantee their fabulous budgets.
Sad to say you could be right about some of this being a set up for expanded budgets.
I live in CT. There was a mention of this, but no names or pictures of the two obama dreamers. The local MSM has to decide a balance between exulting the police as gods and giving the arrest as little coverage as possible because the preps weren’t White.
These two dreamers will get about 10-12 years in prison, serve maybe 5 and be released to be good model citizens.
Meanwhile, there’s at least one head-on car crash a day and drivers just driving off the road for no particular reason. I live in NW CT and the ambulances and firetrucks are busy roaring up and down the roads all hours of the day and night.
DEA stats & assertions & moon landing photo opportunities aside … Books & their covers.
Or, dusting off an old riposte, the packaging argument.
If the pills were hidden inside piñatas? Would it still obviously-maybe ominously be about the children™?
Or inside Madonna statuettes & Eucharist wafer boxes (or maybe even formed into Eucharist wafers)? Would that prove “they” were pumping Catholic segmentation?
The purpose of camo is to fool the eye. Which is attached to, part of, the brain. It’s the kind of lying that label laws are/were supposed to address. Guffaw.
The revo will not be televised & gmo insect protein will not be listed.
Sackler ransackers, sure enough. But they couldn’t have done it w/o a little help from their friends in lower in the organization places. It wasn’t the sacklers on the corners pushin’. That was the AMA army.
60 yrs later and the pharma zombies stand’n at the door ask’n… would you like to donate to the cancer research to help beat cancer???
OMG, had our health network and then some other fuckin mental health Camh, thats, it come to the door asking for donations. I said I don’t think they need more money to help spread these diseases they have imposed on our society. There’s too many insane people around because these agencies are helping to foster it. Here a victim there a victim Im a victim too!
Uh-huh. I’d donate cancer to the lot of them, if I could. But otoh, dunno what’d transpire, if cancer times cancer works the same as negative times negative.
dig’n a hole and fill’n it in at the same time…
Hey Cartel, only the CDC and big Pharma are allowed to drug children!
But their Murder is “Legal”.
They have “License” to kill.
If the cartels they are referring to by “cartels targeting children”. They mean the Globalist cartel of the World Economic Forum, then they would be correct.
Well, in order to get the precursor chemicals from China (where they ALL come from), I’m sure the Cartels had to agree to a few demands….and likely in return for some big up-front cash. Packaging the drugs to kill lots of kids was probably just one of their “requests.”
We live at the end of a lonely road past all the street lights with bears roaming freely trying to fatten up for winter. Never had a trick or treater in 20 years, even though wife puts up decor. If a brave kid ever does show up, we’ll probably give them $1000 for all the candy we never had to buy.