A man was transporting enough pure fentanyl to kill more than 25 million people, a DEA special agent said. The drugs were seized – but the DEA lost track of him.
Federal drug agents and prosecutors in Colorado held a news conference in July to tout their work taking fentanyl off the streets amid a string of highly publicized overdose deaths.
“DEA was working with us and they made a deal with the driver,” Master Trooper Gary Cutler said. “He ran on them after they worked the case, and that was their debacle.” At about 10:37 a.m. on June 18, the trooper spotted a car weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 70 just west of Denver.The driver, identified as Maldonado, told the trooper he had spent a week in the town of Grand Junction visiting family. But the trooper knew the story was a lie; he had run a check on Maldonado’s license plate prior to the stop and learned that it had been scanned by a license plate reader in Southern California roughly 24 hours earlier.
The trooper let him drive 3 miles to the next exit to use the restroom. While Maldonado was in the bathroom, the trooper walked his drug-sniffing dog around the vehicle. The dog signaled the presence of drugs, the affidavit says, prompting the trooper to search inside the car. The next day, Maldonado set out on the controlled delivery with a tracking device attached to his car. But at some point on his journey — it’s not clear where — he managed to slip away from the surveillance and remove the tracker from his car, the affidavit says.
Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director and an NBC News national security contributor, said the DEA is most likely conducting an internal investigation.
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