Law enforcement agencies in the United States announced the largest seizure of chemical precursors, at a Sept. 3 press conference in Houston, Texas.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro spoke to reporters, standing in front of 1300 barrels of chemicals, and asked those in attendance to “imagine bodies where those barrels are,” saying the work of law enforcement would save lives by keeping drugs like fentanyl off the streets.
Pirro said it would take 24 18-wheelers to take the seized chemicals to a storage facility.
The chemicals, of Chinese origin, were headed to the Sinaloa Cartel to be made into drugs that could be sold on the street, he said….