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Derek Maltz, former director of special operations for the DEA, warned parents to educate themselves about the national fentanyl crisis after the authorities will seize ,000 pills disguised as candy in Connecticut.
Just weeks before Halloween, the DEA is warning parents that deadly rainbow-colored pills may be marketed to the children.
Two men from Maryland were charged with trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills hidden in Nerds candy boxes and Skittles candy bags into Connecticut. https://t.co/A40WTELmE0— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) September 09, 2022
The recent seizure in Connecticut found the drugs hidden in Skittles and Nerds candy packages.
“We are seeing an unprecedented number of children dying at 13 years,” Maltz said on the “Fox & Friends” TV show on Tuesday.
“And we now know, according to the DEA, that the 40% of the pills contain a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl”.
Two Maryland men were charged with trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills to Connecticut.
Oscar Flores, from 34 years, from Mount Rainier, and Severo Alelar, from 25 years, of Hyattsville, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Hartford, according to the US Attorney for the District of Connecticut.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 8, 2021, Flores, Alelar and others arrived in an SUV at a meeting place in Wethersfield to sell approximately 15,000 fentanyl pills to an undercover DEA agent.
After Flores showed the undercover agent a sample of the fentanyl pills, the agent indicated that he needed to travel to another location to collect the money.
Flores, Alelar and the others followed the undercover agent’s vehicle as they traveled south toward Rocky Hill.
Maltz explained to presenter Ainsle and Earhardt that cartels are taking advantage of teens’ obsession with the Internet by selling drugs on social media platforms.
Children whom directing these sales, Maltz noted, may be unaware of the deadly danger.
Maltz encouraged parents to seek out educational materials from the DEA and other organizations without for profit to find out what to look for as Halloween approaches.
“They have to be proactive”, he said.
“It’s deadly fentanyl and it’s flooding our streets like we’ve never seen it before.”
Maltz advised concerned parents to open any package of suspicious candy and notify the police if you find drugs. He said that the material must be removed immediately.
“Stay away from that because it’s poison. It really is dangerous,” he said.
Maltz added that schools must get involved in fighting the crisis and called on the Biden administration to act with a sense of urgency.
In the United States, deaths from synthetic opioids increased from 6,000 in 2015 To over 63,000 in 2021, with fentanyl being the main contributing factor.
Some counties have reportedly run out of morgue space due to fentanyl deaths.
“This is not a drug problem, it is a massive poisoning”, he said.
“We are losing a future generation: 300 per day”.
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