Advanced Search Close Search
California reports rise in fentanyl seizures in crackdown
State

California reports rise in fentanyl seizures in crackdown

  • Updated

California seized more than 28,000 pounds of fentanyl over the past year. That's a nearly six-fold increase in the amount of the drug recovered a year earlier. State officials said Friday that the California National Guard contributed to the seizures, hiring and training more than 160 members to work on fentanyl-reducing efforts. Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is working to protect people from the dangerous drugs. States are grappling with an addiction and overdose crisis that has grown deadlier due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Officials say the drugs seized in California were estimated at a street value of $230 million.