U.S. House members call for congressional investigation of federal drug agents’ actions in NM • Source New Mexico
NM delegation has asked DEA for a briefing on its ‘efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking’ in the state
The U.S. Department of Justice in April of 2025 announced what it called the country’s largest-ever fentanyl bust as part of a multi-state operation, from which cash and drugs, pictured above, were seized in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. A whistleblower told the Associated Press that multistate investigation allowed “millions” of pills to go unseized. (Courtesy U.S. District Attorney’s Office, District of New Mexico)
Those allegations, from a DEA whistleblower and records, come via reporting by the Albuquerque Journal and the Associated Press. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday evening announced she was asking state Attorney General Raúl Torrez to investigate “whether any federal agents broke state law when they allowed lethal drugs to remain on our streets, and to prosecute anyone responsible — regardless of whether they are a federal agent or not.”
The New Mexico Department of Ju…