ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico leaders are calling for an investigation after a whistleblower claimed the Drug Enforcement Administration let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills reach streets.
The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office said it is considering next steps after looking at the allegations against the DEA.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said she has already asked Attorney General Raúl Torrez to investigate whether any Drug Enforcement Administration agents broke state law when pills reached New Mexico streets.
“We’ve been fighting this battle against fentanyl and so absolutely we demand that there should be some accountability and some transparency as to what happened,” Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said.
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., said she and other members of New Mexico’s House delegation are working to get an investigation started at the federal level.
“We will hold them accountable using every tool we have, whether that’s congressional inquires, actual investigations into civil and criminal misconduct,” Stansbury said. “The state’s investigation, should the AG take it up, would be into potential crimes committed by individual agents, so we will use every oversight tool that we have to investigate this.”
The DEA gave The Associated Press a statement Monday calling its actions legal and reasonable. The agency later pointed to a statement on its website from DEA Administrator Terrance Cole.
“Independent oversight is part of maintaining the public’s...
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