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New Mexico opens criminal probe of DEA after agents allowed fentanyl shipments to hit streets
- New Mexico's attorney general opened a criminal probe into whether DEA agents illegally allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into Albuquerque after an AP report.
- Whistleblowers say agents monitored but didn’t seize shipments to build bigger cases — a tactic critics call a dangerous gamble while the DEA ran its "One Pill Can Kill" campaign; the DOJ watchdog is reviewing.
- The investigation has sparked political outrage and demands for accountability in a state hit hard by fentanyl deaths, though some victims' families still defend the DEA's work.
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